State v. Light

LoviNS, Judge:

This writ of error was granted to review a judgment of the Circuit Court of Raleigh County, which sustained a verdict of guilty returned by a petit jury of the criminal court of that county by which Artie Light was found guilty of keeping a house of ill fame.

Defendant was tried on an indictment returned by a grand jury impaneled in the criminal court above mentioned on January 11, 1943. In the first count of the indictment it was charged that defendant kept a house of ill fame and in the second count defendant was charged with the offense of having leased or let premises to be…