HARWOOD, Presiding Judge.
The indictment against this appellant charged that he, having been convicted of a crime of violence, did possess a pistol, etc.
Section 174, Title 14, Code of Alabama 1940, provides that no person who has been convicted of a crime of violence shall own or possess a pistol.
The appellant filed a plea of not guilty, and a special plea setting up that in 1939 he had been convicted in this State of murder in the second degree...
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