City of Columbus v. Thompson

This cause squarely brings into question the constitutional validity of a portion of the “suspicious *28person” ordinance of the city of Columbus. That ordinance, Section 2387.02, as in question here, reads, in part:

“It shall be unlawful for any suspicious person to be in this city. The following shall be deemed suspicious persons:

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“(g) Any person who wanders about the streets or other public ways or who is found abroad at late or unusual hours in the night without any visible or lawful business and who does not give satisfactory account of himself.”

Appellant attacks this provision of…