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157 Tex. Crim. 101

246 S.W.2d 896

Tolbert v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided January 23, 1952

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas · decided 1952-01-23

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Decided 1952-01-23

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Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently April 1993

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MORRISON, Judge.

¶1The offense is unlawfully carrying a pistol; the punishment, a fine of $100.00.

¶2Three state’s witnesses testified that they saw appellant near the door of the cafe with a pistol in his hand.

¶3Appellant testified, admitting that he had been at the cafe on the time in question, that he had had an argument with the proprietor over the nickleodian but denied that he had a pistol of any kind with him on that occasion.

¶4Having testified, he thereby established his defensive issues.

¶5The great majority of the bills of exception complain of the court’s failure to charge that the pistol carried by appellant must have been proven to be one capable of being fired and one possessed of all the component parts of a pistol.

¶6Bill of exception No. 8 complains that he was limited in his argument of the above contention to the jury.

¶7*102We do not find such issue to have been raised by the evidence and therefore conclude that the trial court acted properly.

¶8Finding no reversible error, the judgment of the trial court is affirmed.

¶9ON appellant’s motion for rehearing

DAVIDSON, Judge.

¶10The witnesses for the state testified that the appellant had on his person a pistol at the time and place mentioned. This testimony made a prima facie case against the appellant. It was not the burden of the state to go further and show that the pistol was a pistol within the meaning of the statute making unlawful the carrying of a pistol.

¶11If the pistol appellant was alleged to have been carrying was not, in fact, such a weapon, the appellant should have so shown as a defense.

¶12The appellant’s motion for rehearing is overruled.

¶13Opinion approved by the court.

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