Beail v. District of Columbia

HOOD, Associate Judge.

Appellant was charged and convicted of being a vagrant, to wit, “a person who wanders about the streets at late and unusual hours of the night without any visible and lawful business and not giving a good account of herself.” 1

The arresting officer testified to about twenty occasions between February 22 and March 13 when he saw appellant standing or loitering on the streets at night. Many of these occasions were as late as 1:00 and 2:00 o’clock in the morning. ' On some occasions she was standing in front of restaurants or lunchrooms. On some occasions she was alone; on…