Stokes v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
From the City Court- of Montgomery. Tried before the Hon. Thos. H. Arrington. The appellant in this case, Nora Stokes, was indicted, tried and convicted of the offense of being a night-walker. The indictment contained four counts. The first three counts charged her with being a vagrant, a common prostitute, and a common drunkard.
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From the City Court- of Montgomery. Tried before the Hon. Thos. H. Arrington. The appellant in this case, Nora Stokes, was indicted, tried and convicted of the offense of being a night-walker. The indictment contained four counts. The first three counts charged her with being a vagrant, a common prostitute, and a common drunkard. The fourth count, and the only one upon which a conviction was asked, was in words as follows: “The grand jury . . further charge that . . . Nora Stokes was a common night-walker, and did walk and ramble in the streets and common highways in the city of Montgomery,…
1Opinion of the CourtColeman, J.
-The defendant was convicted of the offense of night-walking. A night-walker has been defined to be one who has a habit of being abroad at night for the purpose of committing some crime, of disturbing the peace, or doing some wrongful or wicked act-. Night-walking, at- common law, is a common nuisance. — 1 Bishop Cr. Law, (7th Ed.) § 502, and note. Night-walkers are persons who stroll the streets at night for immoral purposes, or, as charged in the indictment,, “for the unlawful purpose of picking up men for lewd intercourse and are indictable at common law.- — 2 Whart. Cr. Law, § 1416.…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Thomas v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1876
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