Golden v. State

HURT, Presiding Judge.

This conviction was had for a violation of the terms of article 341a of the Penal Code, prohibiting the keeping of disorderly houses. Appellant was the tenant of a certain house, at which malt liquor was kept for sale and sold by him. If he permitted lewd women, or women of bad reputation for chastity, to display or conduct themselves in said house in a lewd, lascivious, or indecent manner, he was guilty of keeping a disorderly house. He objected to evidence that women who visited his house were of bad reputation for chastity. This evidence was clearly admissible, made…