Haines v. State

The defendant was indicted for a violation of the act of 1905 prohibiting drunkenness or intoxication in certain public places, and also within the curtilage of any private residence not in the exclusive possession of the person so intoxicated (Acts 1905, p. Ill); and he excepts to the judgment refusing his motion for a new trial. We shall not treat of those grounds of the motion which deal with the question of newly discovered evidence, not only because the testimony appears in the main to be merely cumulative and impeaching, but also because, under the view that we take of this case, a new…