Cabiness v. State

PRENDERGAST, Judge.

On September 26, 1910, the grand jury of Harris County indicted appellant charging that on or about August 25, 1910, in said county, he “did unlawfully keep and was concerned in keeping a certain house then situate, as a bawdy house and as a house where prostitutes were permitted to resort and reside for the purpose of plying their vocation.” He was convicted, fined $200 and twenty days "in jail.

The court in charging the jury correctly stated the offense and defined a bawdy house and then required the jury to believe beyond a reasonable doubt that on or about the time…