State v. . Evans
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal from the Superior Court of Law of Rowan County, at the Spring Term' 1845, his Honor Judge Bailey, presiding. The defendant was tried upon an indictment, which the Solicitor alleged to be an indictment for keeping a bawdy house, and which was in the following words, to wit: “North Carolina, ) Superior Court of Law, Rowan County. \ ss' Fall Term, 1844. The jurors for the State upon their oath present, that Augus* la Ann Evans, late of the said county, spinster, on the…
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Appeal from the Superior Court of Law of Rowan County, at the Spring Term' 1845, his Honor Judge Bailey, presiding. The defendant was tried upon an indictment, which the Solicitor alleged to be an indictment for keeping a bawdy house, and which was in the following words, to wit: “North Carolina, ) Superior Court of Law, Rowan County. \ ss' Fall Term, 1844. The jurors for the State upon their oath present, that Augus* la Ann Evans, late of the said county, spinster, on the 10th day of August, 1843, and thence continually to the time of the finding of this bill, and before, in the said county…
1Opinion of the CourtRuffin, C. J.
The motion to quash the indictment was, in the opinion of this court, properly refused. For, although it may not sufficiently charge the keeping of a bawdy house, yet it is good, at least, as an indictment for keeping a disorderly house; and, if it sufficiently charge any offence, it cannot be quashed; as an indictment for a disorderly house, it substantially agrees with the precedents. Cro. Cir. Com. 302, 2 Chitty’s Crim. Law, 40. The language of the indictment is, that 'the defendant “ did keep and maintain a certain ill-governed and disorderly house, and in said house did procure and…
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