People v. Wachtel

Kernochan, Ch. J.

The appellant was convicted of vagrancy. (Code Crim. Proc. § 887, subd. 4, cl. a.)

The complaint charges that on the 18th day of November, 1929, in the premises 233 West Seventy-seventh street in the county of New York, the appellant committed an act of prostitution with one Joseph Clark and received therefor twenty dollars. This act of prostitution, according to the complaint, was committed in apartment 8-B in the home of the appellant.

*206The evidence offered by the People was sufficient to make out a prima facie case and the magistrate did not err in denying the motion made…