State v. Osgood
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions. The defendant demurred to an indictment found against her and which charges that she "on the thirteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, and on divers other days and times between that day and the day of the finding of this indictment, at Kocldand aforesaid, in the county of Knox aforesaid, unlawfully did keep and maintain a certain place, to wit: a certain building occupied by the said Josie Osgood as a…
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On exceptions. The defendant demurred to an indictment found against her and which charges that she "on the thirteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, and on divers other days and times between that day and the day of the finding of this indictment, at Kocldand aforesaid, in the county of Knox aforesaid, unlawfully did keep and maintain a certain place, to wit: a certain building occupied by the said Josie Osgood as a dwelling, situated on Main street in said Kockland, then and on said divers other days and times there used as a house of…
1Opinion of the CourtHaskell, J.
Revised Statutes, c. 17, § § 1, 2, among other things, provides that "all places used as houses of ill-fame” are common nuisances; and "whoever keeps and maintains such nuisance” shall be punished.
This indictment charges that the defendant did keep and maintain a certain place, to wit., &c., used as a house of ill-fame, to the common nuisance, &c., in the precise language of the statute, and is sufficient. State v. Stanley, 84 Maine, 555 ; Stale v. Ryan, 81 Maine, 107. Exceptions overruled.
Peters, C. J. ,Walton, Libbey and Foster, JJ., concurred.
2Cited by1 opinion
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