Porter v. State

BEAUCHAMP, Judge.

The appellant was indicted jointly with J. R. Kelly on a charge of pandering. The trial was separate, and the judge assessed a penalty of twelve years in the penitentiary. The indictment contained two counts, the first of which charged the offense based on the allegation that Muriel Shields was forced to remain as an inmate in a house of prostitution and by threats and fraud and duress forced to ply the occupation of a prostitute. The second count alleges that appellant and Kelly, “did then and there unlawfully procure a female inmate, towit Muriel Shields for a house of…