People v. Casanova

Defendant appeals from a judgment of conviction upon an indictment charging her with perjury and from an order denying her a new trial. The perjury is alleged to have been committed by her in the course of her testimony on the trial of a criminal action wherein she was charged with maintaining a disorderly house for the purposes of assignation and prostitution.

At all the times mentioned herein defendant kept and maintained a hotel in the city of San Diego known as the New Mexico Hotel. On December 20, 1920, by a criminal complaint filed in the justice’s court of the city of San Diego, it was…