Howard v. State

This is an appeal from a conviction in the Marion Criminal Court, Division 1. Appellant was charged by affidavit with the crime of prostitution, which crime is defined in I.C. 1971, 35-30-1-1, being Burns §10-4220:

“Any female who frequents or lives in a house or houses of ill fame, knowing the same to be a house of ill fame, or who commits or offers to commit one or more acts of sexual intercourse or sodomy for hire, shall be deemed guilty of prostitution, and on conviction thereof shall either be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars; and imprisoned not…