Originally Posted By: HairyKnuckles
I`m no lawyer but I think if a person can not show any means of income but still drives around in a car, owns a house or is arrested in a gambling joint for example, falls into this catagory.


I know that back in the day small midwestern and southern towns would charge bums, drunks and transients with that charge to either put them in the county lock-up or make them move along to the next town. It was one of those losely defined nuisence charges that cops could use.

http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/vagrancy

Last edited by Tony_Pro; 03/31/14 05:18 PM.

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