State v. Lee
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Clinton District Court. — Hon. C. M. Waterman, Judge. The defendant was indicted for the crime of keeping a house of ill-fame, tried by a jury, and found guilty. From the judgment rendered on the verdict he appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtRobinson, J.
— The indictment charges that the alleged crime was committed in Clinton county, as follows : “The said Harry Lee, on the twenty-fifth day of April, A. D. 1887, in the county aforesaid; did unlawfully and feloniously keep a house of ill-fame, resorted to by divers persons to the grand jury unknown, for the purpose of prostitution and lewdness.” The defendant at the time in question occupied the first and a part of the second floor of a building in the city of Clinton. The two floors were connected by means of outside stairways. The front room of the first floor Was used as a billiard hall,…
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