Night walkers

Described in the statute 5 Edw. III. c. 14, as persons who sleep by day and walk by night. Persons who prowl about at night, and are of a suspicious appearance and behavior. Persons whose habit is to be abroad at night for the purpose of committing some crime or nuisance or mischief or disturbing the peace; not now generally subject to the criminal laws except in respect to misdemeanors actually committed, or in the character of vagrants or suspicious persons.

See Thomas v. State, 55 Ala. 260; State v. Dowers, 45 N. H. 543.

In a narrower sense, a night walker is a prostitute who walks the streets at night for the purpose of soliciting men for lewd purposes.

Stokes v. State, 92 Ala. 73, 9 South. 400, 25 Am. St. Rep. 22; Thomas v. State, 55 Ala. 260.