Reed v. State

The defendant was convicted of being a vagrant, under subdivision 3 of section 7843 of the Code 1907, which provides that—

“Any able-bodied person having no property sufficient for his support, who loafs, loiters, or idles in any city, town, or village, or upon a public highway, or about a steamboat landing, or a railroad station, or any other public place in this state, or any place where intoxicating liquor is sold, without any regular employment,” is a vagrant.

On the trial of this case in the circuit court, there was no evidence that the defendant was “an able-hodied person” or that he did…