FERGUSON v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

No. 3574.

208 A.2d 96 (1965)

Lee Roy FERGUSON, Appellant, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided March 11, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Garber, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

David P. Sutton, Asst. Corp. Counsel, with whom Chester H. Gray, Corp. Counsel, Milton D. Korman, Principal Asst. Corp. Counsel, and Hubert B. Pair, Asst. Corp. Counsel, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before HOOD, Chief Judge, and QUINN and MYERS, Associate Judges.


HOOD, Chief Judge:

Appellant was convicted of vagrancy under D.C.Code 1961, § 22-3302(1).1 Following the statutory language the information charged appellant as a vagrant, to wit: "a person known to be a pickpocket, thief, burglar, confidence operator and felon either by his own confession or by his having been convicted in the District of Columbia or elsewhere of any of said offenses," etc. The arresting officer, the government's...

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