Brooks v. State

Mm Justice Burnett

delivered the opinion of the Court.

Brooks was convicted of carrying a pistol, with his punishment fixed at a fine of $50 and a workhouse sen*70tence of eleven months and twenty-nine days, from which he appeals.

Brooks, a Negro man, admits carrying the pistol, wrapped in paper and in a shoe box, unloaded, to the home of his former paramour. He says she asked to borrow the pistol. His story is sharply contradicted by the State’s witnesses. They say the prosecutrix (the paramour), her daughters and a male friend of the pros-ecutrix along with Brooks were at the home of the…