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Judges and Judiciary

Oct. 30, 2001

Why Sit Ye Here, Vagrant, All the Day Idle?

In Lewis v. The State , 3 Ga.App. 322 (1907), Chief Judge Benjamin Harvey Hill held the following for the court, in pertinent part:

        In Lewis v. The State, 3 Ga.App. 322 (1907), Chief Judge Benjamin Harvey Hill held the following for the court, in pertinent part:
        Enoch Lewis was convicted in the city court of Americus, on an accusation charging him with vagrancy. The accusation contains in one count three classes of vagrancy. The evidence in the case is applicable to only the 1st and 3rd classes of...

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