State v. Emerson

Defendant appeals from a conviction for accepting the earnings of a common prostitute. Two ques*236tions are raised: One involves the sufficiency of evidence to support the findings that the earnings accepted by the defendant were from a “common prostitute” within the meaning of ROW 9.79.060; and the second question concerns the propriety of using evidence of a police agent to convict the defendant when, at the request and under the direction of Seattle police officers, the police agent obtained the evidence by becoming a customer of a common prostitute in violation of a Seattle city ordinance…