Deskin v. State

The defendant, Pattie Belle Deskin, was charged in the county court of Stephens county with being drunk in a public place; was tried; convicted; and sentenced to pay a fine of ten (10) dollars and has appealed.

We have given this case painstaking and careful consideration, which, although only involving a small fine for a misdemeanor, convicts a middle aged woman who had never been arrested for any offense in her life and who according to the testimony of many officials and citizens who had known her for a large number of years in the county where she resided was a person of exemplary…