Benson v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

The conviction is for vagrancy; punishment fixed at a fine of $200.

The offense is denounced by Articles 634 and 636 of the Penal Code. In substance, they declare that “all male persons who are habitually associated with prostitutes are vagrants.”

The State’s witness Ligón, a deputy constable, had known the appellant for about six months. He had seen him on a certain day in May in a public waiting-room in the depot, about 4:00 or 4:30 o’clock in the morning, and a girl was sitting upon his lap. There were two girls present, and the witness knew them by reason of having…