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FIELDS v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

No. 984.

77 A.2d 563 (1950)

FIELDS v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided December 27, 1950.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William A. Tinney, Jr., Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Vernon E. West, Corporation Counsel, Chester H. Gray, Principal Asst. Corporation Counsel, and Edward A. Beard, Asst. Corporation Counsel, all of Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before CAYTON, Chief Judge and HOOD and CLAGETT, Associate Judges.

HOOD, Associate Judge.

Appellant was convicted of being a vagrant, the information charging that she was "a person who keeps, and operates, and frequents, and lives in and is employed in a house and other establishment of ill fame."1

Appellant's main argument appears to question the sufficiency of the evidence establishing the house in question as one of ill fame. She argues that evidence of bad character of the inmates or of the...

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