Runnels v. State

The appellant, Anderson Runnels, was indicted in the circuit court of Smith county on a charge of vagrancy, the indictment being based upon subdivision (k) of section 5055, Code of 1906, which defines who are vagrants. He was convicted on this charge, and sentenced to serve a term of thirty days in the county jail; and from this conviction and sentence he prosecuted this appeal. .

From the testimony offered by the state, it appears that the appellant and his wife, Mrs. Carley Runnels, were married in Smith county on the 28th day of September, 192'6'; that after their marriage they lived with…