Beail v. District of Columbia

EDGERTON, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from a conviction of vagrancy which the Municipal Court of Appeals affirmed. 82 A.2d 765. The information, dated March 13, 1951, alleged that appellant was on February 22, 1951 “and has been since that day and still is a vagrant, to wit; a person who wanders about the streets at late and unusual hours of the night without any visible and lawful business and not giving a good account of herself.” An Act of Congress provides: “The following classes of persons shall be deemed vagrants in the District of -Columbia: * * (8) Any person who wanders about the…