Overstreet v. State

Sherman Overstreet was convicted on information charging that in Woods county, September 27, 1925, he did sell one pint of whisky to one B. E. Slagle, and in accordance with the verdict of the jury was sentenced to pay a fine of $100 and confinement in the county jail for 60 days. To reverse the judgment he appeals. .

The state relied for this conviction on the testimony of the witness B. E. Slagle, who testified that he lived at Carmen, Okla.; that he was employed by the mayor of Waynoka for the purpose of ferreting out violators of the prohibitory law; that he received $10 a day and…