Lamar v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of Bee. Tried below before Hon. W. R. Hayes, County Judge. Appellant was convicted, under an indictment charging her, in four separate counts, with keeping a -disorderly house; but in neither of which was she charged with being the “owner,” “tenant,” or “lessee” of the house. At the trial she was convicted, her punishment being assessed at a fine of $200.
1Opinion of the Court
WHITE, Presiding Judge.
The offense of keeping a disorderly house, as defined in article 339 of thé Penal Code, and the punishment therefor, as provided in article 341, has been essentially changed by an act approved April 4, 1889 (Gen. Laws 21st Leg., p. 33). By article 339, “disorderly house” was defined; and by.article 341 it was provided that any person who shall keep, or be in any way concerned in keeping, a disorderly house shall be fined, etc.
The amendment to article 339 by the Act of the Twenty-first Legislature, supra, amends and adds to the definition, as contained in the old article…
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