People v. Davidson
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ oe Error to the Criminal Court of Cook county; the Hon. Henry V. Freeman, Judge, presiding. At the November term, 1908, of the criminal court of Cook county, Mary and David Davidson, as keepers of a house of prostitution, were convicted of harboring Josephine Piatkowski, an unmarried female under the age of eighteen years, /in the house of prostitution alleged to have been kept by them.
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Writ oe Error to the Criminal Court of Cook county; the Hon. Henry V. Freeman, Judge, presiding. At the November term, 1908, of the criminal court of Cook county, Mary and David Davidson, as keepers of a house of prostitution, were convicted of harboring Josephine Piatkowski, an unmarried female under the age of eighteen years, /in the house of prostitution alleged to have been kept by them. Each of the defendants was sentenced by the court to the penitentiaiy, and they liave sued out this writ of error. Upon the trial evidence was offered which tended to show that plaintiffs in error…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Scott
The bill of exceptions contains, first, the testimony of the girl, Josephine Piatlcowski, and the testimony of her mother, in narrative form, and then continues in the form of a common law bill of exceptions, reciting- that there was evidence offered by each party which tended to prove certain facts. The girl and her mother both testified that at the time of the "trial the girl was not yet sixteen years of age; that the day of her birth was May 20, A. D. 1893. The bill of exceptions recites that the defendants introduced evidence tending to prove that the girl was of the age of twenty-two…
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