Coleman v. Godsey

Appellant was for many years a duly licensed taxicab driver with a good record. On August 2, 1956, a woman he had never seen was a passenger in his cab. She afterwards charged in writing that he made indecent and abnormal proposals to her, in disgusting language which she purported to remember and reproduce at length and in detail.

The Board of Revocation and Review of Hackers’ Identification Licenses held a hearing, at which appellant and the passenger testified, on a charge that he solicited her for immoral purposes and used vulgar and profane language. Her story was completely…