Eddy v. Commonwealth

*874The plaintiff in error, Ella Eddy, upon a warrant theretofore issued by the police justice of the city of Roanoke, was, on the 17th day of February, 1915, tried and convicted by §aid justice of a violation of an ordinance of the city, which is as follows:

“Sec. 419. Any person who shall keep a house of ill fame, resorted to for the purpose of prostitution or lewdness, shall be fined not less than five nor more than one hundred dollars, and in the prosecution of this offense the general character of the house may be proved.”

Upon the conviction of plaintiff in error, judgment was entered against…