State v. . Calley
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Nuisance — Bawdy-house—Disorderly House — Evidence. This is a CRIMINAL action, which was tried at January Term, 1889, of Catawba Superior Court, Clark, Jr, presiding^ The indictment charges the defendant in the first count with keeping a bawdy-house, and in a second count with keeping a disorderly house.
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Nuisance — Bawdy-house—Disorderly House — Evidence. This is a CRIMINAL action, which was tried at January Term, 1889, of Catawba Superior Court, Clark, Jr, presiding^ The indictment charges the defendant in the first count with keeping a bawdy-house, and in a second count with keeping a disorderly house. The evidence produced on the trial went to prove that on one occasion, at night, a witness saw a man in the house of the defendant in bed with one of her daughters; that at that time the defendant was in a room below stairs; that at another time a witness went to the house at night, got drunk…
1Opinion of the CourtMerrimon, C. J.
— after stating the case: Accepting the evidence as true, the defendant was guilty of reprehensible, vicious and disgraceful conduct on repeated occasions, but it did not prove, in any reasonable view of it, that she kept, in a legal sense, a bawdy-house — a house as a habitation for prostitutes — a house of ill-fame kept as a place of common resort and convenience of lascivious and lewd people of both sexes. It proved that she was a woman of loose morals — a lewd woman; that she sometimes — it might be inferred,frequently — had sexual intercourse with men in and about her house, and her…
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