Johnson v. State

PRICE, Presiding Judge.

Upon a charge of vagrancy, appellant was convicted of being the keeper, proprietor or employee of a house of prostitution. Code 1940, Title 14, Section 437, subdivision (10).

The state’s evidence tended to show that police officers watched the premises at the corner of Texas and St. Emanuel Streets, in Mobile, for four nights immediately preceding the raid, and several times during daytime hours. They observed a constant stream of taxicabs discharging male passengers only. These persons were let in and out of the house by defendant and another man. Some of the officers…