Mooney v. State
Court of Appeals of Georgia
1Opinion of the CourtBloodwokth, J.
(After stating the foregoing facts.)
In Leonard v. State, 5 Ga. App. 494 (63 S. E. 530), Judge Bussell said: “Though numerous witnesses, whose testimony is uncontradicted, testified that they had not seen the defendant work, that he had no visible means of support, and that he was always loafing in idleness when they saw him (and all of these witnesses saw him frequently), this evidence, though true, must yield, in a prosecution for vagrancy, to positive evidence, not necessarily in conflict therewith, and equally uneontradicted, that the defendant had earned and had been paid an amount of…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Daniel v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1900
- Leonard v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1909
- Randall v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1919
3Cited by5 opinions
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