Barker v. State

HARPER, Judge.

Appellant was prosecuted under information and complaint charging that she “did unlawfully and directly keep and was concerned in keeping a certain house, then and there situated, as a house where prostitutes were permitted to resort and reside for the purpose of plying their vocation, and as a house kept for the purposes of prostitution.”

The motion for a new trial contains but three grounds, all relating to the same matter. It alleges (1) that the court erred in instructing the jury upon the law of principals, claiming that no such issue was raised by the evidence, as the…