Howard v. People
Supreme Court of Colorado
Error to the County Court of Mesa County. The information under which the conviction was had charges in the first count that on or about the first of August, 1898, and each and every day thereafter till November 10, the defendant knowingly and unlawfully maintained and kept a lewd house and place for the practice of fornication; and in the second count, containing the same allegation as to time, that defendant knowingly and unlawfully kept a common, ill-governed and…
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Error to the County Court of Mesa County. The information under which the conviction was had charges in the first count that on or about the first of August, 1898, and each and every day thereafter till November 10, the defendant knowingly and unlawfully maintained and kept a lewd house and place for the practice of fornication; and in the second count, containing the same allegation as to time, that defendant knowingly and unlawfully kept a common, ill-governed and disorderly house to the encouragement of idleness, gaming, drinking, fornication, open lewdness, the solicitation by prostitutes…
1Opinion of the Court
Cheep Justice Campbell
delivered the opinion of the court.
A large number of errors have been assigned and argued. The transcript of the record is prepared without reference to chronological order of the proceedings below. Both the record and the abstract are confusing, and it has been a laborious task to obtain a satisfactory understanding of the questions sought to be raised.
The attorney general in his brief states that there is no affirmative showing in the record as certified here that all of the evidence heard at the trial is contained in the bill of exceptions, or that all of the…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- United States v. CruikshankSupreme Court of the United States · 1876
- State v. HaywardSupreme Court of Missouri · 1884
- State v. NicholsSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1882
- Leary v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1872
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- Rumely v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1923
- Wilson v. PeopleSupreme Court of Colorado · 1938
- In re BreckenridgeNevada Supreme Court · 1911
- Ewing v. LunnSouth Dakota Supreme Court · 1908
- State v. DufourSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1913
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