State ex rel. Zenner v. Graham

Citations

• 34 Wash. 81
• 74 P. 1058
• 1904 Wash. LEXIS 313

Syllabus

<p>Habeas Corpus — Sufficiency of Information — Rulings on, not Review able. Rulings of the trial court upon the sufficiency of an information which do not go to the jurisdiction will not be inquired into in habeas corpus proceedings, since they are reviewable upon an appeal.</p> <p>Statutes — Title of Act — Living off Earnings of Prostitutes. The subject of the act, Laws 1903, p. 230, making it a felony to live off the earnings of a prostitute, solicit sexual intercourse, or entice or receive a female child into a house of ill-fame for the purposes of prostitution, etc., is sufficiently set out in the- title thereof, which is a complete index of the act, while it is only necessary to so state the general purpose and scope of the act that the subject is expressed therein.</p> <p>Same. The compiler’s head lines are no part of the title of an act, and the act can not be restricted thereby.</p> <p>Constitutional Law — Class Legislation — Prostitution — Discrimination Between Males and Females — -Lawfulness of Act. Laws 1903, p. 230, making it unlawful for male persons to live off the earnings of prostitutes is not in conflict with the fourteenth amendment of the federal constitution because it discriminates between male and female persons, since the privileges and immunities referred to are such only as are lawful, and prostitution may be prohibited or restricted to any class and in any way without infringing constitutional provisions.</p>