Tracy v. State
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Opinion
The information charges that defendant unlawfully carried upon his person a pistol. He was put upon trial upon this charge alone, and all the evidence introduced related to the carrying of no other weapon than a pistol. In [497]*497his charge to the jury the court not only instructed with reference to a pistol, but also as to a dagger, dirk, slung shot, sword cane, spear, knuckles, etc. In fact, he gave in charge to the jury article 318 of the Penal Code, literally and entirely. Defendant promptly excepted to the charge and reserved a proper bill of exceptions.
Said charge is manifestly erroneous because, in part, it is unwarranted by the pleadings and evidence, and is not the law applicable to the case. The charge should have been confined to the specific facts—the specific weapon charged in the information, and to which the evidence related. The error having been excepted to, the judgment must be reversed.
The charge also embraces, literally and in its entirety, article 319 of the Penal Code, which is law not applicable to the evidence in the case, and which should not have been given.
The special instructions requested by the defendant are not the law applicable to the facts in evidence, and were properly refused.
Because of the error in the charge excepted to, as above stated, the judgment is reversed and the cause is remanded.
Reversed and remanded.
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