Eleanor R. Harris v. District of Columbia

EDGERTON, Chief Judge.

Appellant was convicted of vagrancy under D.C.Code (1951), Supp. V, § 22-3302(1), on an information which charged in the words of the statute that she was by confession or conviction “known to be a pickpocket, thief, burglar, confidence operator [or] felon”, had no lawful means of support, and failed to give a good account of herself when found loitering. The Municipal Court of Appeals affirmed. The conviction rests on the theory that appellant was a known thief because she had once been convicted of “taking and carrying away of the property of another * * * without…