Quarles v. United States

KELLY, Associate Judge:

Appellant was apprehended during the execution of a search warrant at an after-hours club and charged _with _carrying a pistol without a license 1 because he was seen to secrete a loaded .38 caliber revolver behind a radiator during the raid. Upon conviction appellant was sentenced to nine months in prison and fined $1,000. There are two contentions on appeal: that appellant’s separate motions for a mistrial and for a new trial, based upon the allegedly erroneous transmission of an unadmit-ted exhibit to the jury, were improperly denied; and that the trial court’s…