Williams v. State

The constituents of the offense of night walking, with which defendant is charged, made essential by the averments of the present indictment, are that defendant “was a common night walker, and did walk and ramble in the streets and common highways in the city of Montgomery, Alabama, at unseasonable hours of night, without having any lawful business and without any necessity therefor, for the unlawful purpose of picking up men for lewd intercourse, against good morals and good manners, to the common nuisance of all good people of said county.” Stokes v. State, 92 Ala. 73.

The only evidence…