Farris v. State

PRENDERGAST, Judge.

The appellant was convicted for unlawfully carrying a pistol and his penalty fixed at thirty days confinement in jail.

The testimony shows that late Sunday evening in the town of Palmer, Ellis County, Texas, the four-year-old child of the appellant threw a can of water on a boy sixteen or seventeen years of age, weighing about 120 or 130 pounds, while he was passing along the street. The child and the boy were both on the street; that the boy thereupon slapped the child down and kicked him; that this occurred about twenty steps from appellant’s residence. Appellant was in…