WELSH v. STATE

No. 39144.

398 S.W.2d 567 (1966)

Porter Langston WELSH, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

February 2, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pope & Heitler, by John E. Heitler, Tyler, for appellant.

Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


BELCHER, Commissioner.

The conviction is for unlawfully carrying a pistol; the punishment, a fine of $200.

From a narrative statement of facts it is revealed that when the appellant passed two officers while he was driving an automobile upon a public highway at an excessive rate of speed, they pursued and stopped him; that he had the odor of alcohol about him and staggered; and that the officers found a loaded pistol on the front floorboard on the driver's...

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