Smith v. City of Casper

Defendant, Helen Smith, was convicted in police court of a violation of a City of Casper ordinance, was fined one hundred dollars and sentenced to thirty days in jail. Appeal was perfected to the district court and the case tried de novo, at which trial defendant was again found guilty and given the same sentence.

The ordinance in the germane part is :

“ * * * No person shall keep, set up, maintain or operate any place, structure, building or conveyance for the purpose of prostitution, lewdness or assignation, or with knowledge or reasonable cause to know that the same is or is to be used for…