Southwick v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Hot Spring Circuit Court; W. H. Evans, Judge; 1. The indictment is bad and the demurrer should have been sustained. 110 Ark. 318; 111 Id. 214; 114 Id. 310. 2. The testimony is insufficient to sustain a case of pandering. 3. The instructions for the State were erroneous. 1. While the time and place of some crimes must be alleged and proved the general rule is that neither need be done, provided only, that the felony must be alleged. 34 Ark. 321; 102 Id. 393; 92…
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Appeal from Hot Spring Circuit Court; W. H. Evans, Judge; 1. The indictment is bad and the demurrer should have been sustained. 110 Ark. 318; 111 Id. 214; 114 Id. 310. 2. The testimony is insufficient to sustain a case of pandering. 3. The instructions for the State were erroneous. 1. While the time and place of some crimes must be alleged and proved the general rule is that neither need be done, provided only, that the felony must be alleged. 34 Ark. 321; 102 Id. 393; 92 Id. 413; 99 Id. 126. It is sufficient to follow the language used in the statute and the indictment only states one…
1Opinion of the CourtWood, J.
Appellant was convicted under Act 105 of the Acts of 1913, page 407, of the crime of pandering.' The charging part of the indictment is as follows: “Said C. E. Southwick, in the county and State aforesaid, on the 13th day of April, A. D. 1916, did unlawfully and feloniously, by force, fraud, intimidation or threats,- and by the use of his position of confidence and authority, cause his wife, Leetta Southwick, to lead a life of prostitution, and procured other persons to induce his wife to lead a life of prostitution, and to have intercourse with her, he being then and there her husband, and…
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