City of Ottumwa v. Stickel

De G-raff,

The defendant was accused on information in the police court of Ottumwa, Iowa of the crime of operating a disorderly house in that on a certain date in the city of Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa he “did unlawfully and willfully keep a disorderly house, where men and women met and occupied the same rooms for immoral purposes.”

On the same date (February 13, 1922) a second information was filed intended to be a substitution for the original. The new accusation reads “that the defendant did unlawfully and willfully maintain, own, conduct, keep, and operate a disorderly house.” From the…