People v. Behymer

ROETH, JUSTICE.

Defendant was convicted in a trial before a jury, of keeping a place of prostitution in violation of sec 11-17 of cbap 38, Ill Rev Stats 1961. She was sentenced to serve a term of 1 year at Illinois State Reformatory for Women. This appeal followed.

There is no dispute in the facts. In the evening of July 27, 1962, Illinois State Trooper Donald Murphy left a Peoria Police car parked on Jefferson Street about three-fourths a block from 101 Warner Street, Peoria, Illinois. State Trooper Robert Webb and Frank Fosco of the Peoria Police Department remained in the automobile parked…