Case ID: ga-app_4/html/0392-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Powell, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

1126.
    Rogers v. The State.
    Accusation of vagrancy, from city court of Ashbum — Judge Hawkins. April 4, 1908.
    Submitted May 5,
    Decided May 18, 1908.
    
      R. L. Tipton, for plaintiff in error.
    
      J. A. Comer, solicitor, contra.
   Powell, J.

In order to convict a minor between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one years, of- the offense of vagrancy, under the act of August 7, 1903 (Georgia Laws 1903, p. 46), the State must allege and prove, in* addition to the usual allegations, that the minor’s parents were un-. able to support him, and that he was not in attendance upon an educational institution. Jacobs v. State, 1 Ga. App. 519 (57 S. E. 1063); Turner v. State, 2 Ga. App. 386 (58 S. E. 492) ; Collins v. State, 125 Ga. 15 (53 S. E. 809); Braswell v. State, 119 Ga. 72 (45 S. E. 963).

Judgment reversed.