Basta v. State
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Baltimore County. (McLane, J.) The second count of a criminal information by the State’s Attorney of Baltimore.County charged the traverser with procuring and placing a woman in a house of prostitution for the purpose of causing her to cohabit with certain male persons. The third count charged the traverser with receiving money, without good consideration, from the earnings of a woman engaged in prostitution.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Baltimore County. (McLane, J.) The second count of a criminal information by the State’s Attorney of Baltimore.County charged the traverser with procuring and placing a woman in a house of prostitution for the purpose of causing her to cohabit with certain male persons. The third count charged the traverser with receiving money, without good consideration, from the earnings of a woman engaged in prostitution. The cause was submitted to Boyd, C. J., Briscoe, Burke,, Thomas, Pattison, Urner, Stockbridge and Constable, JJ.
1Opinion of the CourtBriscoe, J.
It appears from the Record in this ease, that the traverser was tried and convicted in the Circuit; Court for Baltimore County, upon a criminal information filed by the State’s Attorney of that county, under the power vested in him by Chapter 77 of the Acts of 1892.
The criminal information contains four counts. The first, and fourth counts charge misdemeanors; the second and third counts charge felonies.
The defendant, at the trial, demurred to the whole information and to each count thereof. The demurrer was overruled, and thereupon, a plea of not guilty was interposed and upon trial before…
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