Flowers v. State

SIMPSON, Judge.

Upon an indictment for vagrancy, appellant was convicted of being the keeper or proprietor of a bawdy house, as prescribed by Subdivision (10), Section 437, Title 14, Code of 1940.

The principal evidence proffered by the State was the testimony of one of the raiding officers that, on two separate occasions when he visited the house, he found a man and woman undressed in one of the cabins, and that they were not married. To prove that these two couples were unmarried, the officer was allowed to testify, over due objection and exception, that the couples had' given him statements…