Hill v. State

The defendant was indicted on the blanket charge of being a vagrant, which embraces the thirteen definitions embraced in section 5571 of the Code of 1923. In order to sustain a conviction, some one of these thirteen definitions must be proven by evidence, beyond a reasonable doubt.

To prove tbis, it was competent for the state to prove that defendant was seen strolling around the streets of Florence day and night; that she had no known legitimate business; that she was apparently able to work; that she was a young woman under middle age; that she lived alone, and that men, both married and…