Jackson v. State

SIMPSON, Judge.

Subdivision 10, Section 437, Title 14 of the 1940 Code denounces as a vagrant, and subjects to criminal prosecution, any person who is a keeper, proprietor or employee of a house of prostitution.

On July 27, 1942, the defendant was indicted f<jr this offense and, less than a month thereafter, was tried and convicted. She brings this appeal and urges that we revise the action of the trial court in: (1) Refusing to grant the motion for a new trial upon the alleged ground that the verdict and judgment were contrary to the evidence; and (2) for the improper allowance of testimony…