Legal Opinion

State of Arizona v. Starr

Arizona Supreme Court

Decided May 16, 1941No. Criminal No. 897PublishedCited by 22 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtRoss, J.

The appellees, Leonard Starr and Leslie Combs, were informed against by the county attorney for loitering, without a legitimate reason therefor, within three hundred feet of the grounds of the Longfellow public school, at which children were then in attendance, located in Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona. They filed a motion to quash the information on the ground that the law under which it was drawn denies them due process, in that the crime therein created is so indefinitely defined as not to advise them of the dividing line between lawful loitering and unlawful loitering. This motion was…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Purity Extract & Tonic Co. v. LynchSupreme Court of the United States · 1912
  2. Otis v. ParkerSupreme Court of the United States · 1903
  3. Booth v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1902
  4. Phillips v. Municipal CourtCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1938
  5. Branham v. StateArizona Supreme Court · 1928

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3Cited by22 opinions

  1. City of Seattle v. DrewWashington Supreme Court · 1967
  2. Commonwealth v. CarpenterMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1950
  3. State v. OyenWashington Supreme Court · 1971
  4. Mandel v. Municipal CourtCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1969
  5. State v. CaezNew Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 1963

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