Muse v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

offense is pandering; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of ten years.

The phase of the statute upon which the prosecution is founded is that which uses these words:

“Any person who shall, by promises, threats, violence or by any device or scheme, cause, induce, persuade or encourage an inmate of a house of prostitution to remain therein as such inmate, . . . shall be guilty of pandering, etc.” (Art. 506a, Penal Code.)

Jeannie Coker, nineteen years of age, had been married but was divorced. She arrived in Wellington, Texas, about the middle…