Sullivan v. State

Appellant, in the court below, was indicted, tried by a . jury and convicted of keeping a house of ill fame. Judgment on the verdict. He has appealed and assigned as errors the overruling of his motion to quash the indictment; the overruling of his motion for a new trial; and, the overruling of his motion in arrest of judgment.

The statute defining the offense with which appellant was charged provides that, “Whoever keeps a house of ill fame, resorted to for the purpose of prostitution or lewdness, . . . shall be fined,” etc. §2562 Burns 1926.

That part of the indictment material to the…