Clementine v. State
Supreme Court of Missouri
APPEAL from St. Louis Criminal Court. I. Evidence of the character of the females seen at the house of the defendant was illegal, and should not have been received against the defendant. Character is what the public think and express of, and concerning others, and is full of perils if it is to be received of ctime. It would eon» victan asylum of Magdalene. It is unknown to the law. II.
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APPEAL from St. Louis Criminal Court. I. Evidence of the character of the females seen at the house of the defendant was illegal, and should not have been received against the defendant. Character is what the public think and express of, and concerning others, and is full of perils if it is to be received of ctime. It would eon» victan asylum of Magdalene. It is unknown to the law. II. The general peace and quiet of the neighborhood was not the subject of inquiry in the indictment. if they fomented broils throughout its precincts, could they be punished for it in this-proceeding ? Why, then,…
1Opinion of the CourtBirch, J.
The defendant was indicted for keeping a common bawdy house, and ;the circumstantial testimony of the witnesses being deemed sufficient to (justify her conviction, the verdict of the jury, upon that score, will of Bourse remain undisturbed. The alleged error of the criminal judge, 1 misdeclaring the law and misdirecting the jury, will constitute, there-Hje, the only question to be reviewed by this court.
is complained of by the counsel for the defendant, that it was iin-Hftper in the court to admit testimony respecting the character of the BBmen who lived and were lodged in her house ; and…
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