Court Opinion

ID: 4730297
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-08-12 02:55:12.263121+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:08:00.897291
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The opinion of the court was delivered by
Dunbar, C. J.
The appellant was convicted of violating an ordinance of the city of Spokane concerning vagrancy, and urges here that the city ordinance is unauthorized and void, because the city was only authorized by the legislature to punish vagrants, and not to define the crime of “vagrancy. ” The discussion of this question is not in point here, for in this case the complaint, which was brought under the provisions of the ordinance, states facts sufficient to constitute a crime under the general law defining “vagrancy. ’ ’
The contention that the ordinance in question ceased to exist upon the 1st day of February, 1886, because the act by which the charter was amended went into effect on that day, is fully answered by §93 of the amendatory act (Laws 1885-6, p. 323), which provides that “all valid ordinances of the city of Spokane Falls, when this act takes effect, . . . and until the same are repealed, and all *377rights vested and liabilities incurred when this act takes effect shall not thereby be lost, impaired or discharged. ’ ’
The testimony objected to, we think, was admissible.
Finding no error, the judgment is affirmed.
Anders, Hoyt, Stiles and Scott, JJ., concur.