Hill v. State

BROOKS, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of carrying a pistol, and his punishment assessed at a fine of $100.

The evidence in this case shows appellant, in company with a woman, left the town of Rockwall in Rockwall County, and went to church some six or seven miles away. At the time he left home he had a pistol under the buggy seat where, appellant insists, it remained all the while. The State’s evidence shows that he stopped on the way to the church, got out of the buggy, secured the pistol, and at the point of the pistol forced another party to desist who was engaged in a difficulty with his,…