State v. Johnson

Citations

• 85 Kan. 54
• 116 P. 210
• 1911 Kan. LEXIS 12

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>1. Criminal Law — Information—Duplicity. An information is not bad for duplicity which charges the defendant with enticing, decoying, talcing and receiving a female child under the age of eighteen years into a certain house of ill fame and disorderly house for the purpose of prostitution.</p> <p>2. - Joinder of Counts. One who does all the things mentioned in one transaction commits only a single offense and incurs but a single penalty, and it is proper to charge all conjunctively in a single count.</p> <p>3. -r Ignorance of Material Fact No Defense. It is no defense that defendant did not know the age of the girl or that the girl represented herself to be more than eighteen years old.</p>