People v. Johnson

Defendant, charged with procuring a female inmate for a house of prostitution (3 Comp. Laws 1929, § 16862), was convicted and sentenced, and has appealed.

The evidence is that the female came to defendant’s house and was taken in by defendant and there remained.

The word procure, as used in the statute, means to acquire or to get. The female here was procured or acquired or gotten within the meaning of the statute. To show the procuring the female as an “inmate for a house of prostitution,” evidence was properly received of arrest and conviction of a prostitute from the house (50 C. J. p. 813),…