Houston v. State

MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is procuring; the punishment, six months in jail and a fine of $200.00.

Officer Brumley, of the Special Service Bureau of the Dallas police, testified that he presented himself at the Pennell Courts on the night in question and asked the appellant, who was the porter and who seemed to be in charge of the establishment, if he could get him a woman. The appellant went to the telephone and began to call numbers and finally called him to the telephone so that he could talk to a girl who he had on the wire. The girl on the telephone wanted to know how much…