Graeter v. State

Mitchell, J. —

The grand jury of Knox county presented to the court, by formal indictment, that Frederick Graeter did, on a day therein named, unlawfully permit a certain frame building situate on lot numbered forty-one, in the city of Vincennes, which he had theretofore let to one Mollie Avery to be kept as a house of ill fame and resorted to for the purpose of prostitution, then and there well knowing that it was so kept, etc.

After conviction there was a motion to arrest the judgment, on the ground that the facts stated in the indictment did not *273constitute a public offence. It is contended…