Orth v. State

HARPER, Judge.

Appellant was prosecuted and convicted under an indictment charging that he “was the owner of a house then and there situate; which said house he did then and there unlawfully keep, was concerned in keeping, and knowingly permitted to be kept as a house for the purpose of prostitution “and where prostitutes were permitted to resort and reside for the purposes of plying their vocation.” He was convicted and his punishment assessed at a fine of $200 and imprisonment in the county jail for twenty days.

At the threshold we are met with the motion of the Assistant Attorney-General to…