State v. Purcell

Appellant was charged in the district court, for Blaine county, with a felony, the charging part of the information being:

“That the said Walter Purcell on the 1st day of June, 1923, in the county of Blaine, state of Idaho, then and there being, did wilfully, unlawfully, and feloniously then and there live with, and for a long time previous thereto, had been living with, one Madge Barber, she, the said Madge Barber, being then and there a woman of bad repute.”

The cause was tried by the court with a jury and upon a verdict of guilty appellant was sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary…