People v. Fowler

Appellants were convicted in the Jefferson County district court of prostitution (C.R.S. 1963, 40-9-11) and conspiracy to commit prostitution (C.R.S. 1963, 40-7-35). The prostitution count of the information charged that Doyle Raymond Fowler and Isabel M. Fowler, being over the age of 18 years, did knowingly and feloniously live on and were supported and maintained, in whole or in part, by money realized, procured and earned by a female person through her own prostitution.

On the morning of trial, after members of the jury panel had assembled for duty, appellants determined to waive a jury…