Belk v. State

OPINION

BRETT, Judge:

Appellant, Marion E. Belk, hereinafter referred to as defendant, was charged, tried and convicted in the District Court, Oklahoma County, of the crime of Carrying a Firearm, After Former Conviction of a Felony in violation of 21 O.S.1971, § 1283. His punishment was fixed at a term of ten (10) years imprisonment in accordance with the verdict of the jury, and a timely appeal has been perfected to this Court.

At the time the defendant was arrested on March 20, 1973, he was seated in the driver’s seat of a pickup truck. The two *374arresting officers testified that as defendant…