¶1The motion of the defendant to quash the complaint is based upon the theory that its allegations are vague and indefinite, and also that no unlawful and criminal intent on the part of the defendant is alleged. The allegations as to the place where and the time when the offence was committed are entirely specific, and no allegation of an unlawful or criminal intent was necessary. The statute expressly forbids the act which the defendant was charged with committing, and the complaint follows its language. Whether the defendant intended *315to violate the statute or not, if she committed the act charged she was liable to the penalty which was imposed thereby. Pub. Sts. c. 207, § 13. Commonwealth v. Farren, 9 Allen, 489. Commonwealth v. Waite, 11 Allen, 264. The motion was properly overruled. Exceptions overruled.
150 Mass. 314
Commonwealth v. Shea
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided December 21, 1889
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1889-12-21
Complaint, dated May 11,1889, to the Municipal Court of the city of Boston, alleging that the defendant, on November 11,1888, “ and on divers other days and times between that day and the day of making this complaint, at said Boston, and within the judicial district of said court, did keep a certain house of ill-fame, there situate, then and on said other days and times there resorted to for the purpose of prostitution and lewdness, against the peace of said Commonwealth,…
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Decided 1889-12-21
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