Johnson v. State

Appellant was convicted under an indictment charging him with the offense of being a vagrant. The cause was tried ■by the court without the intervention of a jury. A fine of $200 was assessed as punishment.

The State relied for a conviction upon the testimony of several County and City officers, who testified that during the twelve months’ period before the finding of the indictment three or four days out of each week, and particularly on Fridays and Saturdays, defendant loitered on a street corner in Cullman on which was located *340a taxicab stand, pool room and cafe. He left from the corner in…