Hicks v. State

Two separate charges were preferred against appellant, a Negro woman. In one she was charged with operating a house- of prostitution and in the other of being guilty of prostitution herself, in violation of §§ 1 and 2 of Act 240 of the Legislature of 1943. The causes ivere, by agreement, consolidated for trial and she was found guilty by a jury on eacli charge. On the first, her punishment was fixed by the jury at 90 days in jail and a fine of $150, and on the second, at 30 days in jail and a. fine of $100. From the judgment directing that appellant be “confined in the county jail for a…