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HARRIS v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

No. 2652.

167 A.2d 359 (1961)

Eleanor R. HARRIS, Appellant, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Appellee.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided January 31, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

De Long Harris, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

H. Thomas Sisk, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Washington, D. C., with whom Chester H. Gray, Corp. Counsel, Milton D. Korman, Principal Asst. Corp. Counsel, and Hubert B. Pair, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before HOOD and QUINN, Associate Judges, and CAYTON (Chief Judge, Retired) sitting by designation under Code § 11-776(b).

QUINN, Associate Judge.

Appellant was charged and convicted under a statute which defines a vagrant as:

"Any person leading an immoral or profligate life who has no lawful employment and who has no lawful means of support realized from a lawful occupation or source."1

Of the errors assigned on this appeal, we reach only one: The court's refusal to grant a motion to dismiss at the close of the trial on the ground that...

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