State v. Deweese

LOWENSTEIN, Judge.

The defendant DeWeese was found guilty by a jury of three counts of carrying a concealed weapon. As a persistent offender he received five year consecutive sentences on each count.

DeWeese does not question the sufficiency of the evidence. The testimony showed a woman approached DeWeese in a bar and offered to drive him, along with her child, to a nearby park. DeWeese took with him a brown grocery sack which had the top folded over. When they got to the park a police car pulled up behind the woman’s car — the two officers believed DeWeese might be armed so they stationed…