State v. Gardner

1. Prostitution: elements of offense: who may commit: “any person. I. The statute, Code Sec. 4943, makes it a crime to resort to a house of ill fame “for the purpose of prostitution.” We have to-determine whether the trial court erred in holding that both men and women are within this statute.

While in a broad sense, “prostitution” means “th'e setting one’s self to sale or of devoting to infamous purposes what is in one’s power,” it will not be questioned that the word is in this statute used in a narrower sense, and is the equivalent of sexual prostitution. Such prostitution is the conduct of…