Legal Opinion
In re Jorge
District Court, D. Alaska
Decided October 19, 1945No. A-3859PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DIMOND, District Judge.
On August 14, 1945, in the midst of considerable excitement over the news that the Japanese had finally accepted the terms of unconditional surrender laid down at the Potsdam Conference, Shirley Jorge, a resident of Anchorage, Alaska, was convicted by a jury in a court of the Commissioner and Justice of the Peace, hereinafter called the justice, for the Anchorage Precinct, Third Division, Territory of Alaska, of the crime of keeping a bawdy-house, a misdemeanor, and she was thereupon adjudged and sentenced to pay a fine of $500 and to be imprisoned in jail for the term…
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3Cited by5 opinions
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