Case Name: GREEN v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1919-01-29
Citations: 208 S.W. 514
Docket Number: No. 5262
Parties: GREEN v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 208
Pages: 514–515

Head Matter:
GREEN v. STATE.
(No. 5262.)
(Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Jan. 29, 1919.)
1. Ceiminal Law <&wkey;1144(13) — Appeal—Presumption — Evidence.
Where record is before Court of Criminal Appeals without statement of facts or bills of exception, court will presume evidence was sufficient to sustain case as charged by indictment.
2. Wab <&wkey;4 — Prostitution—Authority op Legislature.
State Legislature had power to make it a criminal offense to solicit a soldier in the service of the United States to meet a woman for the purpose of illicit intercourse.
Appeal from District Court, Wichita County; Wm. N. Bonner, Judge.
Will Green was convicted of making an appointment for and soliciting a soldier in the service of the United States to meet a woman for the purpose of illicit intercourse, and appeals.
Affirmed.
E. B. Hendricks, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

Opinion:
DAVIDSON, J.
The indictment charges appellant with making an appointment for and soliciting a soldier in the United States service to meet a woman for the purpose of illicit intercourse.
The record is before us without a statement of facts or bills of exception. Under such circumstances the rule is that this court will presume that the evidence was sufficient to sustain the case as charged by the indictment. A state of facts will be presumed by this court which were provable under the allegations of the indictment, in the absence of a statement of facts. We have other statutes with reference to punishing solicitors of this character, of a general nature, prohibiting all parties from doing such prohibited acts. In this particular matter the Legislature provided that parties who made such solicitations between a woman and a soldier should be punished as described in the statute. No sufficient reason has been suggested why the Legislature was not clothed with this authority.
Finding no reversible error in the record, the judgment is affirmed.
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