Case ID: ill-app_203/html/0298-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People of the State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, v. Arthur Meyers, Plaintiff in Error.
    Gen. No. 22,625.
    (Not to be reported in full.)
    Error to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Ruzus P. Robinson, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1916.
    Affirmed.
    Opinion filed January 22, 1917.
    Statement of the Case.
    Information by the People of the State of Illinois, plaintiff, against Arthur Meyers, defendant, for violation by defendant of Rev. St. ch. 38, sec. 57al [Cal. Ill. St. Supp. 1916, ¶3591(1)], providing for a penalty for being an inmate of a house of prostitution. From a judgment of conviction, upon trial by the court, and sentence of six months, defendant brings error.
    Abstract of the Decision.
    1. Disorderly house, § 6
      
      -—when evidence sufficient to sustain conviction for being immate of house of prostitution. Evidence held sufficient to sustain a finding, beyond all reasonable doubt, of defendant’s guilt as charged in an information, under Rev. St. ch. 38, sec. 57al [Cal. Ill. St. Supp. 1916, if 3591 (1)], providing for a penalty for being an immate of a house of prostitution.
    2. Criminal law, § 150
      
      —when particeps criminis is competent. A particeps criminis is a competent witness under an information for violation of Rev. St. ch. 38, sec. 57al [Cal. Ill. St.' Supp. 1916, ][ 3591(1)], providing for a penalty for being an inmate of a house of prostitution.
    Arthur H. Simms, for plaintiff in error.
    Maclay Hoyne, for defendant in, error.
    
      
      See Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number.
    
   Mr. Justice Holdom

delivered the opinion of the court.