Modesette v. State

The accused was indicted for a violation of Penal Code, § 342, which prohibits anyone, except certain designated officers of the law, from carrying about his person certain weapons to public gatherings. The accused was tried and convicted in the county court, and his petition for certiorari having been overruled by the judge of the superior court, he excepted. Complaint is made in the petition that the court charged the jury, in substance, that if the accused had a pistol at the public gathering alleged in the indictment, on the day named therein, they would be authorized to find him guilty.…