State v. Lewis
Oregon Supreme Court
From Multnomah: Arthur L. Frazer, Judge. Statement by Mr. Commissioner Slater. Defendant jointly with one Grace Reed was charged by information of the district attorney with the crime of larceny of the sum of $550 from the person of Andrew Johnson in Multnomah County. The parties charged demanded separate trials.
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From Multnomah: Arthur L. Frazer, Judge. Statement by Mr. Commissioner Slater. Defendant jointly with one Grace Reed was charged by information of the district attorney with the crime of larceny of the sum of $550 from the person of Andrew Johnson in Multnomah County. The parties charged demanded separate trials. Grace Reed being first tried and convicted, on the next day thereafter this defendant was tried and also convicted, and was sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of three years, from which judgment she appeals, assigning as errors the admission of testimony over…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Commissioner Slater.
1. The defendant, at the time of the alleged larceny, was proprietress of a house of prostitution in Portland, and her codefendant was an inmate thereof. The prosecuting witness was enticed into the house by Grace Reed, and conducted by her to an upstairs room immediately adjoining, but separate from the one occupied by defendant, who at the time was in her room. As the Reed woman and Johnson passed her door she engaged in some conversation with the former, but Johnson, having just recently arrived in this country, was not able to understand what was said,…
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