People v. Smith

Mr. Presiding Justice Edwards

delivered the opinion of the court.

The State’s attorney of Franklin county filed an information in the county court, charging Joe Smith and Maggie Smith, husband and wife, with the crime of keeping a common disorderly house.

The information consisted of three counts, in the first of which it is alleged that such house was kept “to the encouragement of drinking”; in the second, it was averred to be “to the encouragement of idleness ’ ’; and in the third, it was charged that such keeping was “to the encouragement of fornication.”

There was a trial before a jury, who…