State Ex Rel. Widow Catherine Baker v. Judge of Second Recorder'S Court

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Watkins, J.

The purport of relatrix’s complaint is that, on the 9th of August, 1891, she was arrested on- the complaint of one W. G. Sielhorst, with wilfully and maliciously and unlawfully keeping *1120an assignation house at No. 836 Dauphine street, between Esplanade and Kerlerec, in the City of New Orleans, in violation of Section 8 of City Ordinance 4434, C. S., the complaint being that on the date named, before and after, she was thus unlawfully engaged and employed.

Subsequently, to-wit, on the 10th of September, relatrix was put upon her trial, and…