HOOPER v. STATE

No. 31187.

329 S.W.2d 878 (1959)

Alfred HOOPER, Jr., Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellees.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

December 9, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

No attorney for appellant of record on appeal.

Dan Walton, Dist. Atty., Samuel H. Robertson, Jr., Wells Stewart, Asst. Dist. Atty., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


BELCHER, Commissioner.

Upon a trial before the court without a jury, appellant was convicted of unlawfully carrying a pistol; the punishment, a fine of $150.

The testimony shows that the appellant while in possession of a pistol with four unspent shells in it walked up to a police officer standing on a public street in the city of Houston, told him that he had just shot a woman in the cafe and handed him the pistol.

Appellant testifying in his own...

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