State v. Garing
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions from superior court. An indictment under E. S., c. 124, § 9, charging the respondent with keeping a house of ill fame at Portland, from May 15, 1882, till the May term of court, 1883. cited: /State v. Oarson, 66 Maine, 116; Whar. Cr. Law, § 809; Whar. Ev. § 541; Lohman v. The People, 1 Comst. (N. T.) 379 ; Oom. v. Savory, 10 Cush. 535 ; Smith v. Oastles, 1 Gray, 109; 1 Starkie, Ev. § 143; 1 Greenl. Ev. § § 459, 456, 460; 2 Phil. Ev.
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On exceptions from superior court. An indictment under E. S., c. 124, § 9, charging the respondent with keeping a house of ill fame at Portland, from May 15, 1882, till the May term of court, 1883. cited: /State v. Oarson, 66 Maine, 116; Whar. Cr. Law, § 809; Whar. Ev. § 541; Lohman v. The People, 1 Comst. (N. T.) 379 ; Oom. v. Savory, 10 Cush. 535 ; Smith v. Oastles, 1 Gray, 109; 1 Starkie, Ev. § 143; 1 Greenl. Ev. § § 459, 456, 460; 2 Phil. Ev. (C. & H. 4 Am. ed.) 939 ; State v. Staples, 47 N. H. 113 ; Oom. v. Kelley, 113 Mass. 454; State v. Benner, 64 Maine, 267 ; Stephens, Ev. 185, 237;…
1Opinion of the CourtAppletoN, C. J.
The defendant was indicted under the provisions of 11. S., c. 124, § 9, for keeping a house of ill fame resorted to for the purpose of prostitution or lewdness, of which offence she was convicted.
Exceptions were duly alleged to the rulings of the presiding justice, which have been elaborately argued.
I. The government called various witnesses to prove that there were girls in the house, and that men and women were taken there at all hours of the night. This was to show that persons of both sexes resorted at all hours of the night to the defendant’s house. Without such resorting the offence…
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