Handley v. State

The accused was placed upon trial, charged with the offense of using obscene and vulgar language in the presence of a female, and was convicted. He complains that the court erred in refusing to grant him a new trial. It appears from the evidence that the accused, his son, and others went near the house of the prosecutor for the purpose of assisting his daughter to run away and-marry the son of the accused, and that, having waited the agreed time at the appointed place for the daughter of the prosecutor to appear, and she not having kept the engagement, the accused and others started along the…