State v. Bryant
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from an order of the superior court for Chelan county, Pendergast, J:, entered September 16, 1914, upon sustaining a demurrer to the information, dismissing a prosecution for violation of an ordinance.
1Opinion of the CourtMount, J.
The state has appealed from an order of the trial court discharging the respondent after a demurrer was sustained to an information. The facts are as follows:
On August 15, 1914, a complaint before the police justice of the city of Wenatchee was sworn to charging that the respondent was, on that date, “in the city of Wenatchee, Chelan county, state of Washington, wilfully and unlawfully a common prostitute, and did have indiscriminate sexual intercourse with men for hire, contrary to ordinance No. 377, passed by the council of the said city and approved and published according to law.” Upon…
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