Jackson v. United States
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Hearing on an appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, on verdict, in a criminal prosecution for maintaining a bawdyhouse. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Smyth
Franklin 0.. Jackson and his wife were jointly indicted for maintaining a bawdyhouse in this city. Both were convicted, and the husband appeals from the judgment against him. At the bar only two of his thirty assignments of error were argued, but six are pressed upon our attention with more or less earnestness in his brief.
The wife, Trina Jackson, made application for severance, which was denied. Appellant complains of this. It is manifest that he has no legal ground for doing so, for the ruling was against her, not him.
During the wife’s testimony in chief she said that she leased the…
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