Stateham v. State

The defendant, E. B. (Shorty) Stateham, was charged by an information filed in the county court of Stephens county with the crime of being drunk in a public place; was tried; convicted; and sentenced to serve a term of thirty days in jail and to pay a fine of fifty dollars; and has appealed.

It is contended the evidence was insufficient to support the conviction. Since this is a misdemeanor case we shall not burden the record with a detailed summary of the evidence. It is sufficient to say that two highway patrolmen testified that they arrested the defendant as he stepped out of a car on the…