State v. Price
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN, tried before Oalvert, J., and a jury, at January Term, 1918, of Waee. Defendant was charged with the offense of vagrancy, the complaint and warrant alleging that she “did unlawfully and willfully keep, and was an inmate of, a bawdy bouse, assignation bouse, lewd and disorderly bouse and place where illegal sexual intercourse was habitually carried on, and thereby became a vagrant, in violation’of Acts of 1905, ch. 391, Acts of 1915, ch. 1, and Acts of 1917, ch. 1012,…
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ActioN, tried before Oalvert, J., and a jury, at January Term, 1918, of Waee. Defendant was charged with the offense of vagrancy, the complaint and warrant alleging that she “did unlawfully and willfully keep, and was an inmate of, a bawdy bouse, assignation bouse, lewd and disorderly bouse and place where illegal sexual intercourse was habitually carried on, and thereby became a vagrant, in violation’of Acts of 1905, ch. 391, Acts of 1915, ch. 1, and Acts of 1917, ch. 1012, and contrary to the form of the statute in such case made and provided, and against the peace and dignity of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Walker, J.,
after stating the case: First. When the ease was called for trial, the solicitor moved to amend the complaint and warrant by inserting the words “bawdy house and assignation house,” and adding the words “thereby becoming a vagrant, in violation of the statutes” (enumerated in the motion and hereinbefore stated). The motion was allowed and the affidavit and warrant accordingly amended. Defendant excepted.
The original complaint and warrant, as they now appear in the record, have these words in them, and it may be that they are not the *806originals, but if this be so, the court clearly…
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