People v. Gastro
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Gogebic. (Williams, J.) Respondent was convicted of keeping a house of ill fame. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtChamplin, J.
The respondent was charged with unlawfully keeping and maintaining a house of ill fame, resorted to for the purpose of prostitution and lewdness, contrary to the statute, at the village of Bessemer, Gogebic county. She was convicted, and sentenced to be imprisoned in the Detroit house of correction for 18 months at hard labor.
The prosecution called witnesses, and was permitted, against the objections of the attorneys for respondent, to prove the character of the house occupied by her, from what they had heard, for a long space of time. The respondent’s attorneys insisted that the proofs…
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