State v. Chauvet

1 The defendant was convicted of keeping a house of ill fame, which consisted in the use of a covered wagon, with which he traveled from place to place, and in which prostitution was carried on. The principal witness for the state was a young woman who testified that she was engaged to go with the defendant in a wagon furnished by him, for the purpose of sexual commerce for hire throughout the country, and that she did very frequently indulge therein in the wagon in question, with the knowledge and at the solicitation of the defendant, and that the wages of her jsin were given over to the…