RICKS v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

No. 20919.

414 F.2d 1097 (1968)

Hattie Mae RICKS, Appellant, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided December 23, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Monroe H. Freedman and Sol Rosen, Washington, D. C., with whom Mr. Ralph J. Temple, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. Ted D. Kuemmerling, Asst. Corporation Counsel for the District of Columbia, with whom Messrs. Charles T. Duncan, Corporation Counsel, Hubert B. Pair, Principal Asst. Corporation Counsel, and Richard W. Barton, Asst. Corporation Counsel, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before TAMM, LEVENTHAL and ROBINSON, Circuit Judges.


SPOTTSWOOD W. ROBINSON, III, Circuit Judge:

Nearly every state in the Union has ventured to regulate in a criminal context an assortment of conduct characteristically grouped under the denomination "vagrancy."1 Congress, in like vein, has enacted the two statutes currently in operation in the District of Columbia commonly referred to as the "general vagrancy"2 and "narcotic vagrancy"3

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