Case Name: The People of the State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, v. Charles Warren, alias Clarence Warren, Plaintiff in Error
Court: Illinois Appellate Court
Jurisdiction: Illinois
Decision Date: 1914-03-09
Citations: 185 Ill. App. 341
Docket Number: Gen. No. 19,546
Parties: The People of the State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, v. Charles Warren, alias Clarence Warren, Plaintiff in Error.
Judges: 
Reporter: Illinois Appellate Court Reports
Volume: 185
Pages: 341–342

Head Matter:
The People of the State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, v. Charles Warren, alias Clarence Warren, Plaintiff in Error.
Gen. No. 19,546.
(Not to he reported in full.)
Error to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. John R. Newcomer, Judge, presiding,
Heard in this court at the October term, 1913.
Reversed and remanded.
Opinion filed March 9, 1914.
Statement of the Case.
Prosecution by The People of the State of Illinois against Charles Warren, alias Clarence Warren, on a charge of vagrancy. From a judgment of conviction, defendant brings error.
John F. Tyrrell, for plaintiff in error.
Maclay Hoyne, for defendant in error; Francis E. Hinckley, of counsel.

Opinion:
Mr. Justice McSurely
delivered the opinion of the court.
Abstract of the Decision.
Vagrancy, § 1*—when evidence insufficient to sustain a conviction. In a prosecution for vagrancy under Criminal Code, ch. 38, sec. 270, J. &. A. If 3962, the fact that defendant was without lawful means of support must be proved affirmatively as any other fact, and negative evidence, consisting of testimony that the witnesses had no knowledge upon the subject, is insufficient to sustain a conviction.