City of Columbus v. DeLong

The affidavit filed against the defendant must be governed and limited by the ordinance on which it is predicated, and such affidavit is framed under the part of the ordinance relating to a “prostitute * * * wandering about the streets.”

Undoubtedly, in the exercise of the police power, a municipality may adopt and enforce ordinances designed to inhibit or curtail the illicit activities of prostitutes, but such ordinances should be reasonably specific, and, in our view, the ordinance in controversy, as worded, is too indefinite, restrictive and liberty depriving to constitute a valid use of…