RUIZ v. STATE

No. 35817.

368 S.W.2d 609 (1963)

Obed Santos RUIZ, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied June 26, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marion H. Gibbons, Houston, for appellant.

Frank Briscoe, Dist. Atty., Carl E. F. Dally and James I. Smith, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


WOODLEY, Presiding Judge.

The offense is unlawfully carrying a pistol; the punishment, one year in jail.

The sole question presented is the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the jury's finding that the appellant carried a pistol.

The testimony of Mrs. Pablo Martinez reflects that in the early hours of June 3, 1962, the appellant, who was separated from his wife Angelita, went to a house in the City of Houston, Texas, where his wife and two children...

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