Williams v. United States

EDGERTON, Associate Justice.

The Code forbids “any person to invite * * * any person * * * in or upon any avenue, street, road, highway, open space, alley, public square, or inclosure in the District of Columbia, to accompany * * * her * * * for the purpose of prostitution, or any other immoral or lewd purpose.”1 This condemns solicitation in places of certain sorts.2 Defendant was convicted on an information which does not charge that she acted in any such place, but charges merely that she did “unlawfully invite * * * for the purpose of prostitution” in the District of Columbia. Therefore it…