State v. Stone

Citations

• 66 Wash. 625
• 120 P. 76
• 1912 Wash. LEXIS 819

Syllabus

<p>Indictment and Information — Verification—Waiver of Objection. The objection that an information was not reverified after it was amended is waived where the defendant demurred to the amended information and was later arraigned and pleaded not guilty without raising the objection as to the verification until after verdict.</p> <p>Prostitution — Placing Female in House — Evidence—Corroboration- — Sufficiency. Upon a trial for placing a female in charge of another for the purposes of prostitution, the evidence-of the prosecutrix that defendant took her to his house and introduced her to his wife and that she stayed there several weeks as a prostitute, is sufficiently corroborated, as required by Rem. & Bal. Code, § 2443, where several witnesses testified that the house was a house of prostitution conducted by the defendant and his wife.</p> <p>Same — Previous Unchastity — Evidence—Materiality. Upon a prosecution for placing a female in charge of another for the purposes of prostitution, the previous unchastity of the prosecutrix is not material, except as affecting her credibility as a witness.</p> <p>Criminal Law — Appeal—Review—Waiver of Objection. Where the accused withdrew objections to testimony expecting the answers to be favorable, he cannot predicate error thereon.</p> <p>Criminal Law — Appeal—Review—Harmless Error. Error in excluding a question as to whether the defendant prevented a female from leaving a house of prostitution is cured by permitting her to answer whether any one had done so.</p> <p>Prostitution — Placing Female in House — Elements of Offense. Physical restraint is not an essential element of the crime of placing a female in a house of prostitution.</p> <p>Prostitution — Placing Female in House — Evidence — Competency. Upon a prosecution for placing a female in charge of another for the purpose of prostitution, evidence tending to show the character of the house as a house of prostitution is competent.</p> <p>Witnesses — Impeachment—Convicti