Gavin v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Eeom the circuit court of Noxubee county. HoN. Joi-iN L. BucKley, Judge. Madame Gavin and others, appellants, were indicted and dried for, and convicted of keeping a bawdy house, and appealed to tbe supreme court. Tbe opinion of tbe court sufficiently states tbe case.
1Opinion of the Court
Mayes, J.,
delivered tbe opinion of tbe court.
The only question in this case which we deem necessary to-discuss is whether or not, under section 5055 of tbe Code of 1906, wherein it is provided that “every keeper of a bouse of prostitution shall be punished as a vagrant,” excludes tbe right to prosecute such person for keeping a bawdy bouse.
It is urged by counsel for appellant that, since tbe adoption-of the section above quoted, there can be no indictment of a person as a bawdy bouse keeper, but that in every such case-such person must now be indicted only as a vagrant. We do not think this…
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