Lewis v. State
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Accusation of vagrancy, from city court of Americus — Judge Crisp. October 10, 1907.
1Opinion of the CourtHill, C. J.
Enoch Lewis was convicted in the city court of Americus, on an accusation charging him with vagrancy. The accusation contains in one count three classes of vagrancy, as defined by the 1st, 2d, and 3d sections of the act of 1905 (Ga. Laws, 1905, p. 109). The evidence in the case is applicable to only the 1st and 3d classes of vagrants as described by the act: 1st. “Persons wandering or strolling about in idleness, who are able to work, and have no property to support them.” 3d. “All persons able to *323work, having no property to support them, and who have no visible -or known means of a fair,…
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