State v. White

On information of the prosecuting attorney, defendant, a justice of the peace in Boone county, was tried and convicted.of a violation of section 10203, Revised Statutes 1909, which provides: “If any public officer . . . shall be intoxicated while in the performance of any official act or duty, or shall become so intoxicated as to be incapacitated to perform any official act or duty at'the time and in the manner required of him in the discharge of the duties of his office, he shall be. deemed guilty of a misdemeanor in office and punished by imprisonment in the connty jail not exceeding six…