Saunders v. Commonwealth

On a verdict of a jury convicting him of the crime of pandering, the defendant has been sentenced to serve three years in the penitentiary and to pay a fine of $500.

Section 4579 of the Code (Michie), 8th par., provides that the offense is committed when any person “shall knowingly receive any money or other valuable thing from the earnings of any female engaged in prostitution, except for a consideration deemed good or valuable in law” (emphasis *1003added); and is to be punished by confinement in the penitentiary for not less than one nor more than ten years and a fine of not more than five…