State v. Copling

SUMMERS, Justice.

This is an appeal from the conviction and sentence of the defendants, Herbert “Mott” Tannehill and J. W. Copling, Jr., on February 9, 1961, for enticing minors into prostitution as defined and prohibited by Article 86 of the Louisiana Criminal Code, LSA-R.S. 14:86. The defendants were sentenced to serve three years at hard labor in the penitentiary. The Article provides:

“Enticing minors into prostitution is committed when anyone over the age of seventeen entices, places, persuades, encourages, or causes the entrance of any female under the age of twenty-one into the practice…