Legal Opinion

State v. Topham

Utah Supreme Court

Decided May 4, 1912No. 2340PublishedCited by 35 opinions

Appeal from District Court, Third District; Hon. F. 0. Loofbowrow, Judge. Dora B. Topbam was convicted of pandering. She appeals.

1Opinion of the CourtStraup, J.

The defendant was convicted of the crime of pandering, and was sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison for a term of eighteen years. She appeals.

The portion of the statute (Sess. Laws 1911, chap. 108) under which she was charged and convicted reads: “Any person who shall, by promises, threats, violence, or by any device or scheme, cause, induce, persuade, encourage, inveigle, or entice an inmate of a house of prostitution or place of assignation to remain therein as such inmate,” is guilty of the crime of pandering and punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for a term of not…

2Cases cited24 opinions

  1. United States v. CruikshankSupreme Court of the United States · 1876
  2. United States v. CarllSupreme Court of the United States · 1882
  3. Rosen v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1896
  4. United States v. HessSupreme Court of the United States · 1888
  5. Evans v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1894

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3Cited by35 opinions

  1. State v. BellUtah Supreme Court · 1988
  2. Atwood v. Cox, District JudgeUtah Supreme Court · 1936
  3. State v. ErwinUtah Supreme Court · 1941
  4. State v. WoolmanUtah Supreme Court · 1934
  5. City of Texarkana v. Cities of New Boston, Texas Court of Appeals, 6th District (Texarkana)2004

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