CHICARELLA v. STATE

6 Div. 436.

93 So.2d 802 (1956)

Faye CHICARELLA v. STATE.

Court of Appeals of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied February 12, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John H. Lair, Jr., Birmingham, for appellant.

John Patterson, Atty. Gen., Bernard F. Sykes, and Jas. W. Webb, Asst. Attys. Gen., for the State.


HARWOOD, Presiding Judge.

This appellant has been found guilty of being a vagrant as defined in Section 437, Title 14, Code of Alabama 1940. The theory on which the State presented its case was that the appellant was guilty of violating subsection (9) of Section 437, supra, which defines a vagrant as "Any person who is a prostitute."

The evidence offered by the State consists of the testimony of several police officers of the City of Birmingham who were members...

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