City of Great Bend v. Shepler

Citations

• 109 Kan. 568
• 201 P. 78
• 1921 Kan. LEXIS 322

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>1. Criminal Law — Continuance Properly Denied. No error was committed in denying the defendant’s application for a continuance.</p> <p>2. Same — Keeping Hotel for Lewd and Immoral Purposes — Rulings of Court. Certain rulings touching the reception of evidence with reference to the reputation of the defendant and of his hotel examined, and held to be free from material error.</p> <p>3. SAME — Requested Instruction Rightfully Refused. A certain requested instruction was rightfully refused, because- covered by others which were given.</p> <p>4. Same — Evidence Justified Conviction. The evidence examined, and found fully to justify a conviction.</p> <p>5. Sa.me — Complaint Not Bad for Duplicity. The motion to quash the complaint for duplicity was properly overruled. ■</p> <p>6. Same — Conviction on One Count Only Acquitted as to All Others. The verdict of guilty under one count operated as an acquittal on the other counts.</p> <p>7. Same — Requisites of Complaint. Rule followed, that each count in a complaint or information must state but one offense, save that it may set forth different steps or stages in the commission of one offense.</p>