Batterton v. State

RAMSEY, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of violating the local option law, and his punishment assessed at a fine of $100 and sixty days imprisonment in the county jail.

There are several questions raised in the record, but the only one of sufficient importance to require attention is that raised by defendant’s bill of exceptions Ho. 2, complaining of the general charge of the court, that the burden of proof is on the defendant to show the insanity of the witness Strickland.

The Assistant Attorney-General has filed in the case a very able brief, which we adopt as the opinion of the court; It is as…