Frederick v. Commonwealth

This is an indictment against Frederick, a free man of color, for keeping a disorderly house. The only specifications in the indictment are, that the evil persons invited to and frequenting his house, were there permitted to remain, “drinking, tippling and otherwise greatly misbehaving themselves.” On the trial, among other acts of disorder proven, it was proven that Emily McCune and other prostitutes, occupied the upper rooms of the defendant’s house, as his tenants, to which a flight of stairs ascended on the outside of the house, and the entry to the rooms was not through the lower rooms,…