City of Seattle v. Evans

The following appeals were taken from two separate convictions of violating the city of Seattle’s prostitution ordinance. On two separate occasions the defendant Marie Evans was found guilty of prostitution by the Seattle Municipal Court. Both convictions were appealed to the King County Superior Court but were affirmed after trial de novo, by a judge sitting without a jury. The defendant now appeals to the Supreme Court of Washington.

In the first case, Officer Martin of the Seattle Police Department followed the defendant on July 12, 1967, for approximately four blocks in Seattle’s “China…