State v. Osgood

Decided January 27, 1893

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · decided 1893-01-27

On exceptions. The defendant demurred to an indictment found against her and which charges that she on the thirteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, and on divers other days and times between that day and the day of the finding of this indictment, at Kocldand aforesaid, in the county of Knox aforesaid, unlawfully did keep and maintain a certain place, to wit: a certain building occupied by the said Josie Osgood as a dwelling,…

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Decided 1893-01-27

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Haskell, J.

¶1Revised Statutes, c. 17, § § 1, 2, among other things, provides that "all places used as houses of ill-fame” are common nuisances; and "whoever keeps and maintains such nuisance” shall be punished.

¶2This indictment charges that the defendant did keep and maintain a certain place, to wit., &c., used as a house of ill-fame, to the common nuisance, &c., in the precise language of the statute, and is sufficient. State v. Stanley, 84 Maine, 555 ; Stale v. Ryan, 81 Maine, 107. Exceptions overruled.

Peters, C. J. ,Walton, Libbey and Foster, JJ., concurred.