State v. Harlowe

In a complaint filed in a justice court of Spokane county, the defendant was charged with being a vagrant. On conviction, she appealed to the superior court, where, in a trial before a jury, she was found guilty. She now appeals from the judgment on the verdict.

The state’s evidence was based almost entirely on the testimony of certain police officers, who testified to the following effect: On February 25, 1931, between three and four o’clock in the afternoon, a number of the officers, who had stationed themselves at or near a certain street intersection in the city of Spokane, observed a…