Coleman v. State

The act of 1905 makes it a misdemeanor to be drunk or intoxicated on any public street or highway, or within the curtilage of any private residence not in the exclusive possession of the person so intoxicated; but, to complete the offense, the drunkenness or intoxication “must be made manifest by boisterousness, or by indecent condition or acting, or by vulgar or profane or unbecoming language, or loud and violent discourse.” Acts 1905, p. 114. The purpose of the statute is to protect the public streets and highways and private residences, not. so much from the presence of the drunkard as…