Ramey v. State

The defendant was convicted of being drunk on a public highway, and he assigns error on the overruling of his motion for a new trial. The evidence discloses that the defendant was asleep in the rear seat of a car, and the officer woke him up. The State’s witness swore that “he was not boisterous; he was not riotous; he was not doing anything indecent; he was not doing anything, just drunk; he was not vulgar or profane; I did not hear him say a word; he was not using any unbecoming language, and there was no loud or violent discourse. . . He did not have his clothes unbuttoned or anything.”…