Jones v. State
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Accusation of keeping lewd house; from city court of Fitzgerald —Judge Griffin: March 27, 1914.
1Opinion of the CourtWade, J.
1. On the trial of one charged with maintaining a lewd house, it was error for the court to permit a witness for the State to testify (over the objection that the evidence elicited was irrelevant) immaterial, and prejudicial to the defendant) as follows: “I am prosecuting him because different people have told me what kind of a lewd house it was.” “I arrested him because it had been frequently reported to me by the best citizens that he was running a lewd house, and they asked me why I allowed that to go on right in the main business part of town, and there was hardly a day passed but what…
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