State v. Toombs

i. houses of m ment!statute followed. I. It is claimed by counsel for appellant that the court erred in overruling a motion to quash the indictment. The charging Pai’t of the indictment is as follows: “That the said defendant, Daniel Toombs, did on or about the first day of May, 1886, and on divers other days between that day and the finding of this indictment, in the county of Benton, and state of Iowa, unlawfully and wilfully keep a house of ill fame, resorted to by divers-persons, whose names are unknown to this grand jury, for the purpose of prostitution or lewdness, contrary, to and in…