Hutchins v. State

BROOKS, Judge.

Appellant was convicted for carrying a pistol, and his punishment assessed at a fine of $100 and thirty days confinement in the county jail.

Appellant’s defense, in this case, was that he was working for one Ferguson at the time he was found in possession of the pistol. .The court gave the jury the following charge as applicable to this phase of the case: “You are instructed that it is no violation of the law for a person to carry a pistol at his place of business. And if you believe from the evidence that defendant carried the pistol only at his place of business and did not…