State v. Cavness

The defendant-appellant was convicted after a jury trial of aiding and abetting in the commission of an act of prostitution in violation of R.L.H. 1955, § 309-30. As grounds for reversal, appellant urges that the evidence was insufficient to sustain the verdict and that misconduct of the prosecuting attorney in argument to the jury constituted prejudicial error.

The act of prostitution upon which the charge against the defendant is based was committed by a Theresa Barnes with one Ryan. The latter was the prosecution’s chief witness. He testified that at about midnight on November 25,1961, as…