State v. Boardman
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions. Indictment found at the January term, 1874, of the superior court for this county, under R. S., c. 17, § 1, for maintaining a nuisance, charging that the respondent on the first day of January, 1873, at Decring, &c., and on divers other days and times between that day and the day of finding of the indictment “did keep a certain house of ill-fame, then and there resorted to for the purpose of prostitution and lewdness, by the consent and with the knowledge of…
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On exceptions. Indictment found at the January term, 1874, of the superior court for this county, under R. S., c. 17, § 1, for maintaining a nuisance, charging that the respondent on the first day of January, 1873, at Decring, &c., and on divers other days and times between that day and the day of finding of the indictment “did keep a certain house of ill-fame, then and there resorted to for the purpose of prostitution and lewdness, by the consent and with the knowledge of the said Joseph E. Boardman, against the peace,” &c. Before proceeding to trial the respondent filed a “'motion or plea”…
1Opinion of the CourtDickerson, J.
The defendant is indicted for ‘keeping a house of ill-fame, resorted to for the purposes of prostitution and lewdness. The offence charged is that of a common nuisance. The language of the statute is as follows : “All places used as houses *529of ill-fame, resorted to for lewdness or gambling, for the illegal sale or keeping of intoxicating liquors, are common nuisances.” If. S., c. 17, § 1. Section 2 of the same chapter makes “any person keeping or maintaining such nuisance,” liable to fine or imprisonment in the county jail.
The terms “house of ill-fame” and “bawdy house” are synonymous. “A…
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