Legal Opinion

Kelley v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided March 9, 1927No. 10697Published

The opinion states the case.

1Opinion

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING BY THE STATE.

MORROW, Presiding Judge. —

State’s counsel insists that in holding in the original opinion that the indictment charged no offense, this court was in error. Upon a review of the matter, the conclusion has been reached that one of the phases of the law on the offense of pandering is sufficiently charged in the indictment. The statute upon which the prosecution is founded (Art. 519, P. C.) prescribes several different ways in which the offense may be committed. Thus, one who causes a female to become an inmate of a house of prostitution commits a felony, and…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. O'Brien v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1918

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