MASON v. STATE

5 Div. 493.

103 So.2d 337 (1956)

Ernest MASON v. STATE.

Court of Appeals of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied October 16, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Glen T. Bashore, Clanton, for appellant.

John Patterson, Atty. Gen., Robt. Straub, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Geo. Young, Montgomery, of counsel, for the State.


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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