Mayfield v. State

PRENDERGAST, Presiding Judge.

—Appellant was fined $100 for unlawfully carrying a pistol. The case was tried before the court without a jury.

The statute is, if any person shall carry on or about his person any pistol, he shall be punished, etc. Appellant’s only contention is that the evidence is insufficient to sustain the judgment.

There were but two witnesses for the State, M. L. Pierce and his wife. Pierce testified: That during the fall of 1911 he and his wife lived with the defendant, John I. Mayfield; that Mayfield was during said fall collecting for the firm of Hitt & Co. That he saw the…