Foster v. Commonwealth

The defendant was arrested on a warrant charging him with keeping a house of ill fame, etc. He was convicted by the trial justice, fined $200.00 and sentenced to jail for ninety days. He appealed to the Hustings Court of Roanoke. A jury found him guilty and fixed his punishment at a fine of $100.00 together with a nine months’ jail sentence. That verdict the court approved, and his case is now before us on a writ of error.

The premises so used is the upper flat of a building on Salem avenue in Roanoke. One Margaret Bono appears to have been the lessee. We shall not stop to discuss the evidence…