Watts v. State

PRENDERGAST, Judge.

—The appellant was convicted of unlawfully carrying a pistol.

The State introduced two witnesses, who testified clearly and positively that, on the occasion charged in the indictment they saw the appellant have a pistol; that in a row that occurred between him and others he pulled his pistol off of his person, held it in his hand' and presented it. In addition to this,' the State introduced another witness, and before he testified as to the facts' of the case appellant' proved by him, without objection by the State, that he had served' a full term in the penitentiary for a…