Harden v. State

1. The defendant was indicted for carrying a pistol without a license. The testimony of the prosecutor was that the accused was driving a buggy along a public road, and turned and followed the prosecutor “down the road,” started an altercation with the prosecutor, and “reached back in his [the defendant’s] hip-pocket and got a pistol and shot” at the prosecutor several times. This was sufficient to authorize the conviction of the accused under the act of 1910 (Park’s Annotated Penal Code, § 348 (a) ), which declares that “it shall be unlawful for any person to have or carry about his person,…