Harris v. Commonwealth

STANLEY, Commissioner.

James Harris has been convicted of the crime of pandering and sentenced to the penitentiary for three years. His appeal presents only technical questions of law.

Harris owned and operated a place called Hy-Dee-Ho Club located in Wilder, Campbell County, which was a bordello, a barroom and cafe. He was also chief of police of the town. The statute, KRS 436.040, comprehensively deals with that branch of commercialized prostitution called pandering. It enumerates eight distinct and separate .modes of committing the specific crime or eight particular species of immorality…