Johnson v. State

The appellant was charged with keeping a house of ill-fame. The prosecution was by affidavit instituted before a justice of the peace. The affidavit, omitting the caption and jurat, is in these words : “Samuel Bone swears that Belle Johnson, on the 14th day of June, 1894, and on divers other days prior to that day and the day of filing this affidavit, at said county, did unlawfully keep a certain house of ill-fame, to-wit: A house situated on lot numbered thirteen (13), in Tucker’s addition to the city of Portland, in the county and State aforesaid, then and there resorted to for the purposes…