Frazier v. State

Headnote 1 needs no elaboration.

A house may be a “lewd house” although it is chiefly de-r voted to the carrying on of some other trade. Smith v. State, 52 Ga. App. 88 (6) (182 S. E. 816). In a prosecution for keeping a lewd house, evidence of the general reputation of the establishment and its inmates for lewdness is admissible, but it, without more, is insufficient to support a conviction. Ward v. State, 14 Ga. App. 110 (1) (80 S. E. 295). In Linebarker v. State, 74 Ga. App. 262 (39 S. E. 2d 730) it is stated: “A person can not be legally convicted of maintaining a lewd house unless the…