Cadwell v. State
Supreme Court of Connecticut
IN EEROR. This was an information, filed by the state’s attorney, at the term of the county court of Hartford county, in August 1845, against Woodruff Cadwellff$larging, That on the 15th day of June 1845, and on divers other days and times between that day and the filing of this information, said Cadwell un-^awfu^y kept a house, situated on the West side of Commerce street in the city of Hartford, which house, during all said time, was and is a house of ill fame, resorted to…
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IN EEROR. This was an information, filed by the state’s attorney, at the term of the county court of Hartford county, in August 1845, against Woodruff Cadwellff$larging, That on the 15th day of June 1845, and on divers other days and times between that day and the filing of this information, said Cadwell un-^awfu^y kept a house, situated on the West side of Commerce street in the city of Hartford, which house, during all said time, was and is a house of ill fame, resorted to for the purpose of prostitution and lewdness; all which was well known to, and permitted by, said Cadwell; against the…
1Opinion of the CourtStokrs, J.
The statute, on which the information in this case was founded, prohibits any person from “ keeping a house of ill fame, resorted to for the purpose of prostitution or lewdness” Stat. of 1845, c. 20. p. 22. The phrase, “ house of ill fame,” used in the first branch of this description of the offence, is often, and perhaps usually, adopted in common parlance, to denote a house which is not merely reputed to be, but which is, in fact, a brothel or bawdy-house ; and if there had been nothing added to this expression in the statute, we should probably construe it in this its more popular meaning,…
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