Brumbaugh v. State

The plaintiff in error, Emma Brum-baugh, was convicted at the March, 1914, term of the county court of Comanche county, on a charge of selling intoxicating liquor, and her punishment fixed at a fine of three hundred dollars and imprisonment in the county jail for a period of sixty 'days. Among other errors assigned as ground for a reversal of this judgment is one based upon the following instruction of the court:

“The jury are instructed that under the law of this state, it is permissible for any person to act as detective or enforcement officer, for the purpose of apprehending and prosecuting…