HOUSTON v. STATE

6 Div. 655.

65 So.2d 830 (1953)

HOUSTON v. STATE.

Court of Appeals of Alabama.

June 2, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. L. Longshore, Birmingham, for appellant.

Si Garrett, Atty. Gen., and L. E. Barton, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.


PRICE, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of the offense of vagrancy, the State relying for a conviction on subsection (5), Section 437, Title 14, Code 1940, that is, that defendant was a common drunkard.

The evidence for the State was presented by two officers of the Homewood Police Department. Their combined testimony, after referring to jail slips for the purpose of refreshing their recollections, was that the exact...

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