Lovett v. State

1. The plaintiff in error was convicted of the offense of being drunk upon a public highway (Penal Code, § 442). There are only two points presented by the special assignments of error. . In the fourth ground of the amended motion for a new trial it is contended that the court erred in allowing certain witnesses to testify that the defendant was drunk on certain streets 'which they designated as “public streets,” in the town of Dexter, Georgia, without proof that these streets were in fact public highways. If the proof as to whether the streets in question were in fact lawfully created public…