State v. Rogers

The defendant was indicted in the criminal court of Memphis for carrying a pistol in violation of law. It is agreed he did carry a pistol, but his defense is that he was a regular policeman of the city, wearing its uniform, engaged at the time of the carrying in *511the actual performance of his duties as such policeman, bis special duty being to protect and keep Court Square, a public park in the heart of the city.

The only question is, whether a policeman* on duty, one whose duty was, among other things, as agreed, to arrest all persons violating the law within his beat or sphere of duty, as…