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26 Tex. Ct. App. 190

Harmes v. State

Court of Appeals of Texas

Decided October 20, 1888

Court of Appeals of Texas · decided 1888-10-20

Tried below before the Hon. S. D. Lary, County Judge. This conviction was for keeping a disorderly house, and the penalty assessed against the appellant was a fine of one hundred dollars.

Decided 1888-10-20

Hurt, Judge.

¶1This court, in McElhenny v. The State, 12 Texas Court of Appeals, 231, held that “it is not every house to which prostitutes and vagabonds resort that thereby becomes a disorderly house within the meaning and intent of article 396 of the Penal Code.” In this case, as in that cited, the evidence shows that defendant was engaged in carrying on a legitimate business. That prostitutes and vagabonds resorted to that house for the purpose of buying and drinking beer, does not bring the place within the inhibition of the statute.

¶2Because the evidence does not warrant the conviction, the ' judgment is reversed and the cause remanded.

¶3Reversed and remanded.

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