Johnson v. United States

ROSS, Circuit Judge.

The offense of which the plaintiff in error was convicted, and for which he was sentenced in the court below to imprisonment for ten months in jail and to pay the cost of prosecution, taxed at $417.67, was that' of willfully permitting his wife to practice prostitution — the statute under which the prosecution was had reading as follows: “That any male person who may be found loitering around houses of ill fame, or who solicits, incites, induces, encourages, persuades, or prevails upon any other male person to patronize any house of ill fame or any woman commonly reputed…