Chicarella v. State

HjARWOOD, Presiding Judge.

This appellant has been found guilty of being a vagrant as defined in Section 437, Title 14, Code of Alabama 1940. The theory on which the State presented its case was that the appellant was guilty of violating subsection (9) of Section 437, supra, which defines a vagrant as “Any person who is a prostitute.”

The evidence offered by the State consists of the testimony of several police officers of the City of Birmingham who were members of the vice squad of said police department.

Their testimony was to the effect that the appellant had been seen by them on three…