Willis v. United States

The two appellants have brought here for review their convictions of soliciting for lewd and immoral purposes, Code 1961, § 22-2701, and vagrancy, Code 1961, § 22-3302.

The first question is whether the evidence was sufficient to support the soliciting charge. At the trial, which was without a jury, the testimony of two police officers was to the effect that in the middle of the night appellant Willis motioned to them to stop their automobile and proposed certain indecent acts; that they followed him to an apartment across the street, where Willis called appellant Thompson from another room;…