Threlkeld v. State

The crime of pandering is denounced by Art. 519, P.C. In Johnson v. State, 83 Texas Cr. Rep. 64, 201 S.W. 990, there are nine different fact situations any one of which constitutes that crime. Each of those fact situations, save and except those which have reference to bringing- prostitutes into the state, requires as an essential element thereof proof of the existence of a house of prostitution or house of ill-fame. It follows, then, that the offense of pandering rests, first, upon proof showing the existence of a house of prostitution. Without proof of that fact, the crime of pandering does…