Hardeman v. State

on rehearing.

March 21, 1923.

LATTIMORE, Judge.

In making out a disorderly house ease it is permissible for the State in any legitimate way to show that the female inmates of such house are prostitutes, and that the accused is aware of such fact. One way in which our courts have said that this proof may be made, is by showing that prior to the time charged the women or any of them resorting to or residing in such house, have been charged or convicted of that character of vagrancy arising from being common prostitutes. This was attempted in the instant case and the State’s method of making such…