Dewitt v. Lacotts

Appellee was tried and convicted by the mayor of the incorporated town of DeWitt upon a warrant of arrest charging him with violation of an ordinance of the town providing that “it shall be unlawful and it is hereby declared a public nuisance for any person to appear or be found on any street, alley or on the public square of DeWitt in a state of intoxication or drunkenness.” He appealed to the circuit court of Arkansas County, where the case was tried before a jury upon an agreed statement of facts to the effect that he was drunk on the streets of the town on the day named and as charged in…