Johnson v. State

GRAVES, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of the offense of vagrancy in the Corporation Court of San Antonio, and he appealed to the County Court of Bexar County where, in a trial before the court, he was fined the sum of $200.00, and he now appeals to this court.

In the vagrancy statute, Art. 607, P. C., prior to 1943, there were fourteen subdivisions thereunder defining the offense of vagrancy. In the Acts of the 48th Legislature, Chapter 154, page 253, there was added seven additional methods in which a person could be denominated a vagrant.

In the preparation of this complaint, the pleader…