DocketNumber: No. 6660
Citation Numbers: 28 Tex. Ct. App. 480
Judges: Willson
Filed Date: 4/26/1890
Status: Precedential
Modified Date: 9/3/2021
This conviction is for being a vagrant, to-wit, a common prostitute, and the information charges the offense in general terms in the language of the statute.
It was also material error to permit the State to prove, over defendant’s objections, the bad character of the women who resided in the vicinity of defendant’s residence, and with whom the defendant sometimes associated. Such evidence was irrelevant and incompetent. Holsey v. The State, 24 Texas Ct. App., 35.
There is no evidence in the record, except the illegal evidence above mentioned, proving or even tending to prove that the defendant was a common prostitute.
The judgment is reversed and the cause is remanded.
Reversed and remanded.
Judges all present and concurring.