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State v. Oleson

Supreme Court of Minnesota

Decided June 9, 1880PublishedCited by 15 opinions

The defendant, being arraigned in the district court for Ramsey county, Wilkin, J., presiding, upon an indictment for keeping a house of ill-fame in the city of St. Raul, in that county, pleaded (1) Not guilty; (2) an ordinance of the city of St. Paul, which, it was contended, superseded Gen. St. c, 100, § 9, within the limits of the city; and (3) a prior conviction and sentence in the municipal court of St. Paul, on a prosecution under the ordinance, for the identical act…

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The defendant, being arraigned in the district court for Ramsey county, Wilkin, J., presiding, upon an indictment for keeping a house of ill-fame in the city of St. Raul, in that county, pleaded (1) Not guilty; (2) an ordinance of the city of St. Paul, which, it was contended, superseded Gen. St. c, 100, § 9, within the limits of the city; and (3) a prior conviction and sentence in the municipal court of St. Paul, on a prosecution under the ordinance, for the identical act and offence charged in the indictment. The prosecuting attorney demurred to each of the second and third pleas. The…

1Opinion of the CourtBerry, J.

The defendant was indicted for the crime of keeping, in the city of St. Paul, a house of' ill-fame, resorted to for'the purpose of-prostitution.

The second plea was: “That, under .and pursuant to the act of the legislature, entitled ‘An act. to reduce the law incorporating the city of St. Paul, in the county of Bamsey, and state of Minnesota, and the several acts amendatory thereof, into one act, and to amend the same,’ approved March 6,1808, and under and pursuant and in accordance with the authority in and by said act granted to and vested in the common council of the said city of St. Paul,…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. State v. CharlesSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1871

3Cited by15 opinions

  1. State ex rel. Young v. RobinsonSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1907
  2. State v. LeeSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1882
  3. State ex rel. Erickson v. WestSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1889
  4. State v. HobenSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1959
  5. State v. HolmSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1918

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