People v. Thompson

An information filed in the county court of Sangamon County charged the defendant “did unlawfully and willfully keep and maintain a house of ill fame and place for the practice of prostitution and lewdness * * A jury found him “guilty of keeping a house of ill fame in the manner and form as charged in the information * * and fixed his punishment at the maximum, one year imprisonment and a $200 fine. On writ of error the Appellate Court, Third District, affirmed' the judgment, and the case is here on a similar writ. The defendant admits in his brief that the charge laid against him in the…