State v. Columbus

— The defendant was charged with the crime of accepting the earnings of a prostitute. The charging part of the information was as follows:

“That in Skagit county, state of Washington, and between the first day of December, 1911, and the first day of May, 1912, the said defendants, Christopher Columbus and Billie Liaskos, then and there being, did unlawfully and feloniously accept the earnings of one Mary Blakely, she, the said Mary Blakely, then and there being a common prostitute.”

' The defendant demurred to the information, and the demurrer was overruled. He then pleaded not guilty and…