Howell v. State

1. Upon the trial of one charged with using obscene, profane, and vulgar language in the presence of a female, a special plea in bar by the defendant that he was acquitted at a prior term of the-court of the charge of being in an intoxicated condition upon a public street, or highway, “ said drunkenness and intoxication being caused by the excessive use of wines, brews, liquors, and opiates, and was made manifest by boisterous and indecent condition and acting and by vulgar, profane, and unbecoming language and loud and violent discourse,” and that both charges grew out of one and the same…