State v. Basden

— The defendant, Edna Basden, alias Jean Basden, by information filed by the prosecuting attorney for Yakima county, was charged as follows: by count I with the crime of “placing a female in house of prostitution”; by count II with the crime of accepting the earnings of a common prostitute.

The defendant appeared by way of a demurrer to the information and a motion against the same; and thereafter an amended and somewhat amplified information was filed, also containing two counts charging the defendant with the commission of the same crimes.

On the trial, evidence was introduced by the…