Ex parte Brown

LOWELL, Circuit Judge.

The petitioner has applied for a writ of habeas corpus to release her from confinement in the house of correction of Suffolk county. These are the facts: Complaint was made against her in the municipal court of the city of Boston for keeping a house of ill fame. Rev. Laws Mass. c. 212, § 19. To this complaint she pleaded not guilty. She was tried without a jury and found guilty, and was sentenced to six months imprisonment in the House of Correction. From the judgment of the municipal court she appealed to the superior court, and the complaint against her was entered…