State v. Larson

Bessie Larson has appealed from a judgment upon a verdict of guilty of the crime of accepting money earned by a common prostitute.

The assignments of error raise two questions: (1) insufficiency of the information to charge a crime; and (2) insufficiency of the evidence to show intent and knowledge on the part of appellant.

The first of the two questions was raised by a general demurrer to the information and by a motion in arrest of judgment. The information charges that the appellant did knowingly “accept earnings, towit, money, of a common prostitute,” and is based on Rem. Rev. Stat., §…