Walker v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the court by

JUDGE HOBSON

Affirming.

Appellant was indicted and convicted of the offense of keeping a bawdy-house. Her punishment was fixed at a fine of $800. She complains that the court erred in admitting incompetent evidence against her, and that the Commonwealth attorney made a certain statement to the jury in his concluding argument.

The Commonwealth proved by a number of witnesses that the defendant kept a bawdy-house-; that her reputation for *728morality and chastity is bad; that the reputation of the women she kept was also bad; that the house was frequented by men and women of…