Reynolds v. State

From a judgment of conviction for the offense of being a vagrant, this appeal was taken, the appeal being also from the judgment of the court overruling defendant’s motion for a new trial.

The trial was upon a complaint filed by the Solicitor wherein defendant was charged, as stated, with the offense of being a vagrant, the complaint being based upon subdivisions 6 and 13, of Section 5571, Code 1923, Code 1940, Tit. 14, § 437(6), (13). Subdivision 6, declares that a professional gambler is a vagrant; and subdivision 13, declares, “Any person over the age of twenty-one years, able to work, and…