Flandell v. State

SIMPSON, Judge.

Appellant was tried and convicted in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County for the offense of vagrancy. From a judgment sentencing him to pay the assessed fine of $500 and costs, and additional hard labor punishment of twelve months, he appeals to this court.

The State depended upon evidence that he was a professional gambler as basis for his conviction — denounced by Subsectioh 6, Section 5571, Code 1923, Code 1940, tit. 14, § 437(6).

The obvious omission in the complaint of the pronoun “he” before thp words “was a vagrant” did not render the complaint subject to the asserted…