Short v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of Tarrant. Tried below before the Hon. Sam Furman, County Judge. The conviction was for carrying a pistol, and the penalty assessed was a fine of twenty-five dollars and confinement in the county jail for twenty days. S. P. Maddox testified, for the State, that he was one of the policemen of the city of Fort Worth.
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Appeal from the County Court of Tarrant. Tried below before the Hon. Sam Furman, County Judge. The conviction was for carrying a pistol, and the penalty assessed was a fine of twenty-five dollars and confinement in the county jail for twenty days. S. P. Maddox testified, for the State, that he was one of the policemen of the city of Fort Worth. On the night of December 12, 1887, he arrested the defendant in the White Elephant saloon, in said city, for carrying a pistol on his person. On that occasion the defendant drew the pistol from his hip pocket and discharged it into the floor of the…
1Opinion of the Court
White, Presiding Judge.
This appeal is from a conviction for unlawfully carrying a pistol.
It is shown by the evidence that defendant had the pistol in the White Elephant saloon on December 12. Defendant proved by Ms witness, Ward, and there was no evidence to contradict the testimony, that on December 12, the defendant owned an interest in the White Elephant saloon, having paid the witness (who was the principal proprietor), one thousand dollars for said interest; that he had a desk in the office of said saloon, where he did his correspondence, and a drawer in the safe in the office in which…
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