City of Greenville v. Ward

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Hydrick.

The respondent was convicted in the recorder’s court of the city of Greenville on the charge of vagrancy, under an ordinance, of which the folfowing is a copy: “All persons who1 may be able to labor and have no apparent lawful means of subsistence and neglect to apply themselves to some honest occupation for the support of themselves and their families, if they have families, who shall be found loitering or without employment in the city; all persons who acquire a livelihood by gambling or horse racing; all keepers of gambling…