Johnson v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from .the County Court of Mitchell. Tried below before Hon. C. H. Earnest, County Judge. Appellant was charged by the indictment with being the owner and manager of a theatre, dance house, and house for retailing spirituous liquors, and with knowingly employing and having in his service, in said house, prostitutes, lewd women, and women of bad reputation for chastity, and with permitting such women to conduct and display themselves in said house in a lewd, lascivious,…
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Appeal from .the County Court of Mitchell. Tried below before Hon. C. H. Earnest, County Judge. Appellant was charged by the indictment with being the owner and manager of a theatre, dance house, and house for retailing spirituous liquors, and with knowingly employing and having in his service, in said house, prostitutes, lewd women, and women of bad reputation for chastity, and with permitting such women to conduct and display themselves in said house in a lewd, lascivious, and indecent manner. At the trial he was convicted, with his punishment affixed at a pecuniary fine of $100. No…
1Opinion of the Court
SIMKINS, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of being the owner and manager of a theatre where intoxicating liquor was sold, and in which he knowingly employed prostitutes, and permitted them to display themselves in a lewd and indecent manner, and he was fined $100. It was proven by the State, that women employed in appellant’s theatre were prostitutes, and bore that reputation for two years or more prior to their employment by appellant. That not only was their reputation for chastity bad in the community, but had been so testified to in trials in the presence of appellant while he had them in…
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