Maddox v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Dietzman

Reversing.

The appellant was convicted of the offense of keeping a disorderly house, and has appealed. She was indicted in September, 1925, and was tried on February 4, 1926. The bill of evidence is made up in the narrative form, and the only reference we have been-able to find therein as to the time when the appellant is claimed to have maintained a disorderly house appears in the testimony of James Allen. We quote from the bill of exceptions:

‘ ‘ He (Allen) knew and had known the defendant for some time; that she lived between Twenty-Ninth and Thirtieth…