State v. Emblem

POEEENBARGER, PRESIDENT:

In the criminal court of Ohio county, Elizabeth Emblem was convicted on a charge of unlawfully, wilfully and knowingly leasing and letting a certain house to one Minerva Martin to be used or kept as a house of ill-fame and subjected to a fine of two hundred dollars, and of that judgment she complains.

She rested her defense upon an alleged executory Contract of sale of the property to the person using it as aforesaid, and, as evidence thereof, introduced what purports to be a written contract, whereby she agreed to sell, and the other party to buy, the property for and…