People v. Suazo Morales
People v. Suazo Morales
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
The defendant has appealed from a judgment of the district court sentencing him to jail for one month on a charge of carrying a prohibited weapon.
Here the defendant was entitled to keep a revolver in his place of business. Because of a threatening situation, he had the revolver on his person at that establishment, when he was arrested together with his assailant and taken involuntarily' to the police station. We cannot agree with the district court that during the trip from the Club to the police station he was under these circumstances illegally carrying a prohibited weapon (Cf. Mireles v. State, 192 S. W. 241 (Tex., 1917)).
The judgment of the district court will be reversed a.nd a new judgment entered acquitting the defendant.
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