Habeas Corpus—Plea of Guilty to Charge of Vagrancy.—A defendant who has pleaded guilty under a complaint charging him with the crime of vagrancy, in that, being known to be a confidence operator by his own confession, and having no visible means of support, he was found willfully and unlawfully loitering about and around a broker’s office,. and which states a public offense in the language of section 647 of the Penal Code, is not entitled to bo discharged upon habeas corpus.

Id.—Meaning of Term “Confidence Operator.”—The term “confidence operator” used in the statute has a settled meaning, and implies that the person so designated is engaged in swindling operations in which advantage is taken of confidence reposed by the victim in the swindler.

Id.—Police Power of Legislature.—Persons who are “confidence operators” are a menace to society; and the police power is broad enough to warrant legislation looking toward their suppression. It is certainly within -the legislative power to provide that one having no visible means of support, and who admits that he is a swindler and is found lounging about places of public assemblage, thereby becomes a vagrant.

Id.—Valid Enactment in Penal Code.—-There is nothing in the enactment of the Penal Code under which the charge of vagrancy was made in anywise abridging privileges or immunities of citizens, nor doing or seeking to do aught than to protect well-disposed and orderly citizens from the depredations of the idle and vicious.

Id.—Statute not Making Confession of Calling an Offense.—The statute does not make confession of the calling an offense, nor justify a conviction alone on that ground. It simply makes the admission of the truth of one of the elements of the offense sufficient to establish that element as to the defendant’s status.

Id.—Effect of Plea of Guilty.—The plea of guilty entered by the defendant includes the -admission of every element constituting the offense of vagrancy as defined in the Penal Code.

Id.—Question of Corpus Delicti not Involved.—Though the corpus delicti of an offense cannot be established by any mere confession, yet the plea of guilty in this case removes that question from consideration.