Hodges v. State

PRICE, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of the offense ■of possessing a pistol, after having been ■convicted of a crime of violence. Section 174, Title 14, Code of Alabama 1940.

The evidence for the State established, and defendant admitted on the witness stand, that defendant was convicted of the offense of grand larceny in Houston County, Alabama, in March, 1963.

Defendant testified that on April 15, 1967, he was with four other persons at Jack’s Pool in Headland, Alabama; that he saw Shelby Farmer slap Johnny Cramer, one of defendant’s companions. Defendant asked Farmer what happened…