Boyd v. State

CORNELIUS, Chief Justice.

Appellant Walter Whitfield Boyd was convicted by jury of the offense of aggravated promotion of prostitution. Punishment was assessed at three years confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections.

Appellant operated a nude modeling studio in Dallas called the Cerberus Theatre. Testimony by State’s witnesses Johnny Austin, a former projectionist and manager of the theatre, Glenda Gail Griffith, one of the alleged prostitutes, and Officer Ratley of the Dallas Police Department, was to the effect that females employed as models at the theatre performed various sexual…