Commonwealth v. Anderson

The defendant was convicted in the Superior Court upon a complaint charging her with maintaining a common nuisance, to wit, a certain tenement resorted to for the purposes of prostitution between November 1, 1913, and the day of making the complaint, which was January 30, 1914.

1. The defendant filed a plea in bar to the complaint on the ground that she had been previously acquitted of the same charge by the Municipal Court of the City of Boston. The Commonwealth demurred to the plea, the demurrer was sustained and the defendant was ordered to answer over, to which ruling and order she duly…