Case Name: DIMITRI v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1913-04-02
Citations: 155 S.W. 535
Docket Number: 
Parties: DIMITRI v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 155
Pages: 535–536

Head Matter:
DIMITRI v. STATE.
(Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
April 2, 1913.)
1. Disorderly House (§ 16 ) — Prosecution —Admission ox Evidence.
In a prosecution for keeping a disorderly house, evidence by police officer that he arrested 12 prostitutes in the house and they all pleaded guilty was admissible.
[Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Disorderly House, Cent. Dig. §§ 21-25; Dec. Dig. § 16. ]
2. Disorderly House (§ 17 ) — Prosecution —Sufficiency of Evidence.
In a prosecution for keeping a disorderly house, evidence held to sustain a conviction.
[Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Disorderly House, Cent. Dig. §§ 26-29; Dec. Dig. § 17. ]
Appeal from Dallas County Court, at Law; W. F. Whitehurst, Judge.
Annetta Dimitri was convicted of.keeping a disorderly house and appeals.
Affirmed.
C. E. Lane, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
For other cases see same topic and section NUMBER in Dec. Dig. & Am. Dig. Key-No. Series & Rep'r Indexes

Opinion:
PRENDERGAST, "J.
Appellant was indicted for keeping and being concerned in keeping, on July 15, 1912, a house of pros-stitution, and where prostitutes were permitted to resort and reside for the purpose of plying their vocation. She was found guilty and her penalty assessed at a fine of $200 and 20 days' confinement in jail.
The evidence sufficiently and without contradiction- shows that she was in control and kept such house in Dallas. Several witnesses testified that the general reputation of the house as a house for that purpose was bad. It seems that this reputation not only existed on the date charged but for some time prior thereto. Her clerk testified'that she employed him and he worked for her at said house; that when employed she instructed him that when a man and a woman came there and wanted a room to rent it to them and get the money, to let them sign the book as man and wife, and that he carried out these instructions, rented the rooms to any couple that came for that purpose; that he did not ask them whether they were married or not; that men would come there and want girls, and when they did he .called appellant and she would arrange for the girls. One police officer testified that he was up in the house at one time and saw a man and woman in bed together; that they said they were not married; that the woman told him she got $2 for going to bed with the man and the man said he gave her $2 for that purpose. Another witness testified that between April 1, 1912, and July 15, 1912, he took a woman up in that house. "I took her up there for the same purpose that other fellows took them up there. I accomplished my purpose. I registered as man and wife." Another peace officer testified that in May, 1912, while appellant was in charge of the-house, he arrested 12 prostitutes there, and that they all pleaded guilty; that he had seen 2 of these prostitutes down in the reservation.
Appellant has several bills of exception to nearly all of this testimony on various grounds. The bills are very lengthy. It is unnecessary to copy any of them. As a sample of them we state the first. After the style of the case, court, etc., and the usual recitation of "be it remembered," this bill states that, while the state's witness Linthicum was testifying, he was asked these questions: "Q. What is your name and business? A. I am a police officer and have been nearly two years. Q. Annetta Dimitri here is charged with running a disorderly house, on or about the 15th day of July, 1912. State what you saw, if anything, around that house? A. I made several arrests there. The Court: Go ahead. Q. Well, go ahead and tell it. A. Well, in May I arrested 12 prostitutes in the house. The Court: What did you say? A. I said in the month of May I arrested 12 prostitutes in the house and they all pleaded guilty." Then- follows about two typewritten pages of objections. All of this testimony was clearly admissible, as has many times been held by this court, and none of appellant's objections thereto were good. Robbins v. State, 60 Tex. Cr. R. 523, 132 S. W. 770; Finn v. State, 60 Tex. Cr. R. 521, 132 S. W. 805; Wilson v. State, 61 Tex. Cr. R. 633, 634, 136 S. W. 447; Stone v. State, 22 Tex. App. 185, 2 S. W. 585; Sylvester v. State, 42 Tex. 496, 497; Allen v. State, 15 Tex. App. 320; Cook v. State, 22 Tex. App. 511, 3 S. W. 749; Golden v. State, 34 Tex. Cr. R. 143, 29 S. W. 779; Joliff v. State, 53 Tex. Cr. R. 61, 109 S. W. 176; Moore v. State, 53 Tex. Cr. R. 559, 110 S. W. 911; Tachini v. State, 59 Tex. Cr. R. 55, 126 S. W. 1139; Sprague v. State, 44 S. W. 837; Wimberly v. State, 53 Tex. Cr. R. 11, 108 S. W. 384.
The evidence did not call for, and the court did not err in not submitting, appellant's special charges to the effect that if appellant in good faith rented rooms to persons who represented themselves as husband and wife, and she. believed at the time said representations so made by said persons, and that if she in good faith rented rooms to parties who represented themselves as husband and wife and when said representations were made they were true, to acquit appellant.
The uncontradicted evidence clearly shows appellant's guilt, and the court properly submitted the question to the jury for a finding; no jury acting in accordance with the evidence and the charge of the court could have found otherwise than that appellant was guilty.
The judgment will be affirmed.