State Ex Rel. Davis v. Brown

The bill of complaint was filed by the state of Alabama, on the relation of the solicitor of the Tenth judicial circuit. It charges that the respondent Hattie Brown is operating or conducting a house of prostitution at a certain place in.Birmingham, or is aiding or abetting therein, and that the place so conducted is a menace to the public morals and health. The respondent denied the charges of the bill, and a trial of the issue was had on the testimony of a number of witnesses for both the state and the respondent, who were heard by the trial judge orally in open court. A decree was rendered…