Howell v. State

As was held in the case of Peterson v. State, 13 Ga. App. 766 (79 S. E. 927), under the terms of section 442 of the Penal Code (1910), it is not unlawful for a person to be and appear in an, intoxicated condition on any.public highway or street, unless the intoxication is manifest by boisterousness or by indecent condition or action, or by vulgar, profane or unbecoming language, or loud and violent discourse of the person or persons so intoxicated. Where the evidence shows that a defendant accused under.this section of the .code was lying in the public highway on his back, stretched out,…