Case Name: In the Matter of the Application of OSCAR LUND for a Writ of Habeas Corpus
Court: District Court of Appeal of the State of California
Jurisdiction: California
Decision Date: 1934-03-30
Citations: 137 Cal. App. 616
Docket Number: Crim. No. 2504
Parties: In the Matter of the Application of OSCAR LUND for a Writ of Habeas Corpus.
Judges: 
Reporter: California Appellate Reports
Volume: 137
Pages: 616–617

Head Matter:
[Crim. No. 2504.
Second Appellate District, Division Two.
March 30, 1934.]
In the Matter of the Application of OSCAR LUND for a Writ of Habeas Corpus.
Henry C. Huntington for Petitioner.
Ray L. Chesebro and Ernest K. Maine for Respondent.

Opinion:
CRAIG-, J.
By this application for a writ of habeas corpus the petitioner asserts that he is illegally imprisoned by the chief of police of the city of Los Angeles under conviction in the municipal court of that city of having committed vagrancy, a misdemeanor.
There is ample evidence in the record to sustain the charge upon which petitioner was convicted. It is only necessary that there be proof of a single act of vagrancy. (People v. Phelps, 189 App. Div. 775 [179 N. Y. Supp. 289] ; State v. Gardner, 174 Iowa, 748 [156 N. W. 747, 14 A. L. R. 1498, Ann. Cas. 1917D, 239, L. R. A. 1916D, 767].) In this instance it appears that the following facts pertain to petitioner's conduct in the city of Los Angeles: That he was seen on the streets many times by witnesses; that on several occasions he was in the company of a known prostitute; that at one time he was drunk in an automobile, and that he was at all times idle and without means of support other than in a certain illegal trade known as "hijacking", and there is testimony that he was a "hijacker".
Under these circumstances it is unnecessary and unprofitable to consider or decide certain legal questions which petitioner urges.
The writ is discharged.
Stephens, P. J., and Archbald J., pro tem., concurred