Branch v. State

PBEHDEBGAST, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of vagrancy and fined $50. Our Constitution, sec. 46, art. 3, requires the Legislature to “enact effective vagrant laws.” In compliance with the Constitution our Legislatures have from time to time passed vagrant laws. Until 1909, previous enactments had been found to be inefficient to reach the evil; so that, in 1909, p. Ill, the Legislature redrafted the law on this subject, intended to meet the evil. By this Act, which is article 634 et seq. of our Penal Code, among other things, it is enacted: “The following persons are and shall be…