State v. Sheffield

LUJAN, Chief Justice.

The defendant (appellant) was convicted of the crime of aiding and abetting prostitution. He prosecutes this appeal and asks that the verdict and judgment be reversed on the single ground that the court erred in refusing to grant him a mistrial. Therefore, the review will be confined to resolving the one question.

The facts upon which the prosecution were based are as follows:

The state’s witness, Betty Patterson, an 18 year old girl testified that the defendant •came into the Lobby Night Club at Carls'bad one evening, in the month of June, and told her that he had two men…