Peabody v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Feom the circuit court of Warren county. HON. JohN D. (xillaNd, Judge. Appellants, Mamie Peabody, Belle Johnson and Tinie Walker, were arraigned before a justice of the peace under § 1322, code 1892, on an affidavit charging them with vagrancy in being “common prostitutes, without other means of support or employment. ’ ’ Being convicted, they were taxed with costs, and each required to enter into bond in the sum of $250 for good behavior.
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Feom the circuit court of Warren county. HON. JohN D. (xillaNd, Judge. Appellants, Mamie Peabody, Belle Johnson and Tinie Walker, were arraigned before a justice of the peace under § 1322, code 1892, on an affidavit charging them with vagrancy in being “common prostitutes, without other means of support or employment. ’ ’ Being convicted, they were taxed with costs, and each required to enter into bond in the sum of $250 for good behavior. On appeal to the circuit court, they were again convicted. The evidence for the state was to the effect that the defendants resided on one of the public…
1Opinion of the CourtWhitfield, J.
The demurrer to the affidavit does not appear in the record, and this assignment cannot, hence, be noticed.
We find no error in the instructions.
We cannot say the verdict is manifestly wrong. The nature of the offense charged is such that it is ra'rely established by the same fullness and directness of proof by which more open violations of law are made out.
The character of these appellants was graven with ‘' the point of a diamond on the rock forever,” some centuries since, by an unerring artist, as will at once be seen by the marvelous correspondence between that character, as thus sketched,…
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