JOHNSON v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

No. 4254.

230 A.2d 483 (1967)

Jacqueline JOHNSON, Appellant, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided June 13, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. Barrett Prettyman, Jr., Washington, D. C., for appellant.

David P. Sutton, Asst. Corporation Counsel, with whom Charles T. Duncan, Corporation Counsel, Milton D. Korman, Principal Asst. Corporation Counsel, and Hubert B. Pair, Asst. Corporation Counsel, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before HOOD, Chief Judge, MYERS, Associate Judge, and CAYTON (Chief Judge, Retired).


CAYTON, Judge.

Appellant was convicted under the Vagrancy Statute, D.C.Code 1961, § 22-3302 (1), (3) and (8) and has appealed. She challenges the constitutionality of the statute on eleven grounds which we need not detail here, in view of the disposition we are making of the appeal. But we note that six of such arguments were disapproved in Ricks v. United States, D.C.App., 228 A.2d 316 (1967). These matters were fully explored...

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