Bunkley v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Corporation Court of the city of Newport News. Decree, for the Commonwealth. Defendants appeal. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtSaunders, J.
- In February, 1920, the Commonwealth of Virginia, at the relation of C. C. Berkeley, commonwealth’s attorney for the *58city of Newport News, brought its bill in equity, pursuant to the provisions of the Acts of Assembly, 1916, p. 780, C. 463, alleging that Blanche R. Bunkley, alias Blanche R. Wilson, and William G. Bunkley, her husband, since November, 1918, had knowingly and unlawfully maintained and' kept, and were knowingly and unlawfully maintaining and keeping a certain designated building as a house of ill fame and for the purposes of lewdness, assignation and prostitution, resorted to…
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