Guyton v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. ““ . . . that the offense of ‘procuring,’ in simple language, means that whoever shall procure any female for the purpose of meeting and having unlawful sexual intercourse with any male person, etc., shall be fined, etc. It is to be noted that the ‘procuring’ statute does not mention the word ‘prostitution.’ The ‘pandering’ statute penalizes those offenders who use various means to procure women to engage in prostitution or to become or remain a prostitute. Wyatt v. State, 169 Tex.Cr.App. 499 , 335 S.W.2d 386, 387 . “Our construction of the above statutes is that the procurement of a female to be at a certain place for a single or isolated act of unlawful sexual intercourse constitutes the misdemeanor offense of procuring, punishable under Art. 525, Vernon’s Ann.P.C., while procurement of a female to take up the practice or profession of prostitution or to become or remain a common prostitute, without regard to where she is to ply her trade, constitutes the felony offense of pandering, under Art. 519, Vernon’s Ann. P.C. “It is evident that the state failed to show that appellant procured a female to engage in prostitution. The facts show that she was already engaged in prostitution, was a prostitute, and needed no one to urge her to enter the business or to remain a prostitute. We do not think that the evidence is sufficient to sustain the jury's verdict.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Langer v. State · Garrett v. State