Harris v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the county court of Freestone. Tried below before the Hon. O. C. Kirven, County Judge. This was a conviction for carrying a pair of brass knuckles about the person, the penalty assessed being a fine of twenty-five dollars. The case was tried by the court without the intervention of a jury. The court found, from the evidence, that the defendant, at the time charged in the information, had on his person a pair of steel knuckles.
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Appeal from the county court of Freestone. Tried below before the Hon. O. C. Kirven, County Judge. This was a conviction for carrying a pair of brass knuckles about the person, the penalty assessed being a fine of twenty-five dollars. The case was tried by the court without the intervention of a jury. The court found, from the evidence, that the defendant, at the time charged in the information, had on his person a pair of steel knuckles. It announced as a finding of law that, though manufactured of steel, the weapon comes within the meaning of brass knuckles denounced in Article 318 of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Willson, Judge.
This is a conviction under Article 318 of the Penal Code for carrying on the person brass knuckles. The information charges the offense properly and describes the arm unlawfully carried as brass knuckles, which is one of the arms specifically named in the statute creating the offense.
It appeared in evidence that the arm carried by defendant was made of steel and was not, in fact, made of brass. The said weapon, however, was the same as that commonly known as brass knuckles, in shape, size, use, etc. The only question in the case is, are knuckles made of steel or any other…
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