Because many people belived that homeless people where bringing there town down and rich people where afraid they would steal from there land.
Vagrancy laws in indiana
Vagrancy Handicap was created in 1948.
The noun vagrancy is the act of wandering around idly, without a home or employment. Example sentences:Laws against vagrancy were passed in the US during the Great Depression to try too keep vagrants off the streets of that place. Most of the laws against vagrancy have been repealed as unconstitutional.
Before the widespread occurrence of urban homelessness, vagrancy was mostly limited to a few bums and hobos. After setting up a tent in the city square, he was arrested for vagrancy and trespassing.
All states arrest homeless people that have committed a crime. Typical crimes committed by the homeless include, vagrancy, panhandling, criminal trespassing, and theft. However, being homeless in itself is not a crime in any state.
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He was indigent and therefore arrested for vagrancy.
A vague, poorly delineated set of minor offenses (dating from the downfall of feudalism in England, when there was an acute shortage of laborers), such as being in a condition of unemployment, wandering from place to place with no apparent purpose, and having no visible means of support. More recently, the police have utilized vagrancy statutes for arresting persons thought to have committed a crime, when lack of probable cause for the personÂ's arrest is lacking. Vagrancy statutes have not been well received by the courts, due to their abuse, and have often been declared unconstitutional due to their vagueness, and their ignoring of due process.
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Avagrant is a person, usually poor, who wanders from place to place without a home or regular work. In Medieval Europe this was considered a crime. From the 1530's this was punishable by getting whipped and from the 1540's were hung.