Allen v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of Washington. Tried below before Hon. C. R. Breedlove, County Judge. The conviction in this case was for tlie keeping of a disorderly house in the city of Brenham, the said house being kept fo .• the purpose of public prostitution. A fine of one hundred dollars was the penalty imposed.
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Appeal from the County Court of Washington. Tried below before Hon. C. R. Breedlove, County Judge. The conviction in this case was for tlie keeping of a disorderly house in the city of Brenham, the said house being kept fo .• the purpose of public prostitution. A fine of one hundred dollars was the penalty imposed. In substance the testimony of the witness for the prosecution was that the house occupied by Lottie Walton, and known as a house of prostitution, was generally reputed to be the property of the defendant. None of’ the witnesses knew of their own knowledge who kept the house.…
1Opinion of the Court
White, Presiding Judge.
Appellant was convicted in the County Court upon an indictment transferred from the District Court, charging him with keeping a disorderly house for the purposes of public prostitution. Two bills of exception appear in the record, which were reserved to the ruling of the court as to the admission of evidence on the trial. We notice the second bill solely with a view of calling attention to a rule of practice.
It is stated as ground of objection in the bill itself that the *322State was permitted to prove by general rumor in the community that defendant was in the habit of…
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