State v. . Oldham

The defendant assigns .error in the ruling of the court below in denying his motion for judgment of nonsuit. He contends that the evidence offered by the State was insufficient to sustain a conviction for vagrancy as charged in the warrant under which he was put to trial.

The statutory definition of vagrancy (G. S., 14-336) includes seven classes: “1. Persons wandering or strolling about in idleness who are able to work and have no property to support them. 2. Persons leading an idle, immoral or profligate life, who have no property to support them and who are able to work and do not work. 3.…