Hatem v. State

Ethel Hatem was convicted of keeping and maintaining a lewd house. Her certiorari was overruled and she excepted.

While evidence as to the mere reputation of the house being kept as a lewd house is admissible, yet this will not be sufficient to convict under the Code, § 36-6103, if wholly uncorroborated. Jones v. State, 2 Ga. App. 433 (7) (58 S. E. 559); Watson v. Stats, 10 Ga. App. 794 (74 S. E. 89). The testimony here that the defendant rented the house; that she lived therein; that the women the officers found in the house on different occasions were lewd women; that the house had the…