State v. Gill

1. Criminal law: disorderly house: coercion of wife: presumption. I. The defendants were jointly indicted, and, as they are husband and wife, counsel argue that the presumption that what the latter did was by coercion of the husband, and for this, reason she should , , . i * rv have been acquitted. As to many ortenses ° committed m the 'husband s presence, such x ' is the rule. State v. Harvey, 130 Iowa, 394; State v. Kelly, 74 Iowa, 589; State v. Fitzgerald, 49 Iowa, 260. But this rule has no application to the crime of keeping a bawdyhouse or house of ill fame, “for this is an offense as to…