State v. McDavitt
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Polk District Gourt. — Hon. W. H. McHenry, Judge. Defendant was found guilty under an indictment charging him with a crime described as “resorting to a hotel for the purpose of lewdness,” and, from a sentence of imprisonment in the state reformatory for an indeterminate period not exceeding five years, he has appealed.—
1Opinion of the CourtMcClain, J.
— The charging part of the indictment was as follows: “The said Hector McDavitt on or about the 8th day of May, A. D. 1908, in the county of Polk and State of Iowa, did willfully, unlawfully and feloniously resort to, use and occupy and was found in a certain hotel situated in the county aforesaid, and known as the Morgan Hotel, for the purpose of lewdness, the said hotel being then and there in the possession of and under the control of Phillip Morgan.” The section of the Code under which the indictment was found is as follows: “Sec. 4943. Prostitution. If any person for the purpose of…
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