Hickman v. State

RAMSEY, Judge.

By indictment filed in the Criminal District Court of Harris County on the 30th day of April, 1909, appellant and Susie Mead were charged with keeping as lessees and tenants and with occupying and being in 'control of a certain house, and with keeping and being concerned in keeping same as a bawdy house; and in the second count with keeping such house as an assignation house where men and women would meet by mutual appointment for the purpose of engaging in sexual intercourse.

The reputation of the house was shown by the evidence to have been a disorderly house, as defined by the…