People Ex Rel. Baker v. Strautz

This cause arises upon the original petition of Melba R. Baker and Marlin Ronen for a writ of habeas corpus.

On March 8, 1943, the petitioners were arrested in East St. Louis, Illinois, and placed in the city jail. The next morning complaints were filed before a justice of the peace charging that each “wilfully and unlawfully solicited to prostitution" and “wilfully and unlawfully was a lewd and lascivious person in speech and character." On the same day an order ivas entered by the justice of the peace that it appearing that each of the petitioners may be suffering from a communicable…