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BEAIL v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

No. 1081.

82 A.2d 765 (1951)

BEAIL v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided August 6, 1951.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Albert A. Stern, Washington, D. C., Charles A. Schaeffer, Washington, D. C., on the brief, for appellant.

Edward A. Beard, Asst. Corporation Counsel, Washington, D. C., Vernon E. West, Corp. Counsel, and Chester H. Gray, Principal Asst. Corp. Counsel, Washington, D. C., on the brief, for appellee.

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

HOOD, Associate Judge.

Appellant was charged and convicted of being a vagrant, to wit, "a person who wanders about the streets at late and unusual hours of the night without any visible and lawful business and not giving a good account of herself."1

The arresting officer testified to about twenty occasions between February 22 and March 13 when he saw appellant standing or loitering on the streets at night. Many of these occasions...

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