Wilson v. Commonwealth

Kelly, P.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

The defendant, Bessie Wilson, was convicted in the police court of the city of Norfolk on a warrant charging her with keeping “a house of ill fame, resorted to for the purpose of prostitution and lewdness.” On appeal to the corporation court, she was tried by a jury and again found guilty, and the sentence pronounced upon her by that court is before us for review.

*826The only ground upon which we are asked to interfere with the sentence is that the evidence did not warrant the verdict.

The statute upon which this prosecution rests is as follows: •

“If…