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114 Ark. 310

Lee v. State

Supreme Court of Arkansas

Decided October 5, 1914

Supreme Court of Arkansas · decided 1914-10-05

J. Driver, Judge; reversed. The cause should be reversed because of a fatal variance between the allegation in the indictment as to the location of appellant’s house, and the proof thereof. The place or house of the appellant was descriptive of the offense, and should have been proved as alleged. 62 Ark 459; 63 Ark 312; 64 Ark 188; Id. 235.

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Decided 1914-10-05

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Kirby, J.

¶1Appellant was indicted ¡and convicted for a violation of what is known as the pandering act, for enticing Clarissa Grubbs, a female under the age of sixteen years, to become an inmate of an assignation place and engage in a life of prostitution, the indictment charging this place, towit:

¶2" The home of her, the said Mrs. Lee, # said home then and there being situated on Lake Street, in the city of Paragould, Greene County, Arkansas, which said house was then and there a place where prostitution was practiced, encouraged and allowed,” etc.

¶3The testimony is otherwise sufficient to show the commission of the -offense, /but it is claimed that there is a variance in the proof, the only testimony introduced showing that the home of Mrs. Lee, or her house, was situated, not on Lake Street, in the -city of Paragould, as -charged, but upon a short street in that vicinity, and the majority of the court -are -of the opinion that the contention shoul-d be sustained.

¶4The offense charged in this indictment is one of a local character or nature, consisting of enticing a female under age to visit -or become -an inmate of a place where prostitution is practiced, or an assignation house, and the place was properly descriptive of the offense, it being necessary to allege a place. Bryant v. State, 62 Ark. 459; Jenks v. State, 63 Ark. 312; Adams v. State, 64 Ark. 188; Keoun v. State, 64 Ark. 231.

¶5In Keoun v. State, supra, the court said: “Where -an indictment contains a necessary allegation, which can not be rejected, and the pleader makes it unnecessarily minute in the way of -description, the proof must -satisfy the -description as well -as the main part -of the indictment. ’ ’

¶6A description of the house or place was descriptive of the offense, and, while the indictment would have been sufficient had it -charged only “her home in Paragould,” since the pleader charged specifically the location of the place upon a particular street, it -also became descriptive of the offense, and material, and shoul-d have been proved as charged.

¶7The testimony, having failed to show the commission of the offense, by enticing '-the girl into the home situated on Lake Street, a-s alleged, did not sustain the charge of the indictment, and the variance is fatal.

¶8The judgment is reversed, -.and the cause remanded for a new trial.

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