People v. Cimar

THOMPSON (R. L.), J.

The defendant was convicted of pandering in violation of the Statutes of 1911, page 9, 1 Deering’s General Laws of 1931, page 819, Act 1906. The information charges that he did “wilfully and unlawfully and feloniously procure for a female person ... a place as an inmate of a house of prostitution”.

The appellant contends the verdict is not supported by the evidence for the reason that the female in question was not procured to become an inmate of a house of prostitution against her will, but upon the contrary that she voluntarily entered and remained in the house. It is…