Maguire v. People

Lizzie Maguire, plaintiff in error, was convicted in the criminal court of Cook county under an indictment charging her with being the keeper of a house of prostitution and assignation, and suffering and permitting Anna Liebke, an unmarried female under the age of eighteen years, to live, board, stop and room in said house.

The evidence established the guilt of the defendant. She and her husband occupied the second and third floors of a building, and her testimony was intended to prove that the business of prostitution and assignation was confined to the third floor and was under the sole…