Monroe v. State

DAVIDSON, Judge.

Pandering is the offense; the punishment, ten years’ confinement in the State penitentiary.

The phase of the pandering statute (Art. 519, P. C.) under which this prosecution was maintained reads as follows:

“Any person who shall procure or attempt to procure or be concerned in procuring with or without her consent a- female inmate for a house of prostitution, — — — — — — — — — — — — — shall be confined in the penitentiary for any term of years not less than five.”

The indictment relied upon to charge an offense thereunder, in its pertinent provisions, reads as follows: “that…