Peters v. State

Clara Peters was convicted of operating and maintaining a lewd house, a misdemeanor. She filed a writ of certiorari which was overruled and denied. To this judgment she excepted. The State proved by several witnesses that the Martin Hotel, the hotel in question, had a general reputation of being a lewd house, and that certain women who lodged in the hotel from time to time had a general reputation of being lewd women. This was supplemented by proof of certain specific acts of conduct which took place from time to time, and which, in connection with other testimony, authorized the inference…