Commonwealth v. Porter
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Indictment in three counts, found and returned on April 10, 1920, charging the defendant with keeping and maintaining a nuisance, that described in the first count being “a certain building, part of a building, tenement, and place used for prostitution, assignation and lewdness,” that described in the second count being “a certain place within which and upon which acts of prostitution, assignation arid lewdness were held and occurred,” and the third count including in its…
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Indictment in three counts, found and returned on April 10, 1920, charging the defendant with keeping and maintaining a nuisance, that described in the first count being “a certain building, part of a building, tenement, and place used for prostitution, assignation and lewdness,” that described in the second count being “a certain place within which and upon which acts of prostitution, assignation arid lewdness were held and occurred,” and the third count including in its description the descriptions contained in both the first and the second counts. The case was tried before Dubuque, J.…
1Opinion of the CourtCarroll, J.
The defendant was indicted for maintaining a nuisance under St. 1914, c. 624, which provides that every building, part of a building, place or tenement used for prostitution, assignation or lewdness shall be deemed a nuisance, and that whoever keeps or maintains such a nuisance shall be punished by *3fine and imprisonment. The Commonwealth did not rely on the allegation of prostitution or assignation, but relied only on that part of the indictment charging the defendant with keeping and maintaining a nuisance, to wit, a certain building, part of a building, tenement and place used for lewdness…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Commonwealth v. TibbettsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1893
- Commonwealth v. SinclairMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1907
- Commonwealth v. BishopMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1896
- Commonwealth v. WardellMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1880
- Miller v. CurtisMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1893
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3Cited by19 opinions
- Commonwealth v. DockhamMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1989
- Commonwealth v. BorisMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1944
- Commonwealth v. DiStasioMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1937
- Commonwealth v. BeltonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1967
- Harris v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1974
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