Legal Opinion

Toney v. State

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided December 15, 1877PublishedCited by 24 opinions

From the County Court of Madison. Tried before the Hon. William Richardson.

1Opinion of the CourtBrickell, C. J.

The indictment contains three counts; the first charging, that the defendant “did keep a certain house of ill fame, then and there resorted to for the purpose of public prostitution and lewdness;” tbe second charging, *98that she “was a common prostitute, or the keeper of a house of prostitution, and had no honest employment, whereby to maintain herselfthe third charging, that she was “a common prostitute, or the keeper of a house of prostitution.” The first count charges the common-law misdemeanor of keeping a bawdy-house. The second is a count for vagrancy, under the statute. — R. C. § 3630;…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. State v. HandSupreme Court of Iowa · 1858

3Cited by24 opinions

  1. Prout v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1988
  2. Pugh v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1964
  3. Wilson v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1920
  4. Henson v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1884
  5. Commonwealth v. MurrSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1898

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