Drunkenness on a public highway, without doubt, is drunkenness in a public place, in the sense of the statute. Appellants were arrested while in an automobile where the intoxicating <a name="7240-5"><span class="pmtermS3" id="S3" title="Click to highlight 1929 Miss. LEXIS 61, ***5" style="TEXT-DECORATION: none">[***5]</span></a> liquor was found. The authority to arrest appellants carried with it the authority of the officers to search their persons and the automobile in which they were driving.
/from a 1929 mississippi case
here's the current statute, which also includes public profanity:
§ 97-29-47. Profanity or drunkenness in public place <br class="br"> <br class="br"> If any person shall profanely swear or curse, or use vulgar and indecent language, or be drunk in any public place, in the presence of two (2) or more persons, he shall, on conviction thereof, be fined not more than one hundred dollars ($ 100.00) or be imprisoned in the county jail not more than thirty (30) days or both.