People v. Logan

Defendant’s jury trial resulted in his conviction of violating CL 1948, § 750.452 (Stat Ann 1954 Rev § 28.707). The statute makes it a crime to keep, maintain or operate a house of ill fame, or to aid and abet in doing so. Defendant was sentenced and he appeals.

At trial over defendant’s objection, a police officer testified that the girl who solicited him told him, “the man upstairs was the boss and he sets the rules”. The man upstairs was defendant. The only other proof connecting defendant with keeping, maintaining or operating a house of ill fame or aiding and abetting in doing so was that…