State v. Ilomaki

Citations

• 40 Wash. 629
• 82 P. 873
• 1905 Wash. LEXIS 1039

Syllabus

<p>Criminal Law — Placing Wife in House of Prostitution — Pleading — Information—Duplicity—Statutes—Construction. An information charging the crime of placing a wife in a bouse of prostitution and allowing and permitting ber to remain in sucb bouse, is not bad for duplicity, since any one or all of tbe series of acts constituting tbe crime may be charged in a single count and constitute but one offense.</p> <p>Same — Trial — Excluding Witnesses From Court Room — Witnesses Disobeying Order. It is not error to permit witnesses to testify wbo for a short time disobeyed an order of court excluding tbe witnesses from the court room, where no collusion was shown between tbe witnesses and tbe prosecution.</p> <p>Appeal — Assignment of Eeboe — Specification in Bbief of Eeboks Assigned.. The brief on appeal must specifically point out the errors alleged and refer to the record where the same can be found, in order to secure a review of the error assigned.</p> <p>Cbiminal Law — House of Pbostitution — Knowledge of Defendant — Geneeal Reputation — Evidence. Upon a prosecution for the crime of placing a wife in a house of prostitution, evidence of the general reputation of the house is proper, the court instructing the jury that the defendant must be shown to have known that it was a house of prostitution.</p> <p>Same — Consent of Husband — Good Faith of Peotests. Upon a prosecution for the crime of placing a wife in a house of prostitution where defendant claims to have protested against his wife’s going or remaining there, it is proper to instruct that such protests must have been bona fide and not made merely for a defense, especially where the wife actually remained there and the accused lived with her at such place.</p>