Case Name: The State v. Chartrand
Court: Iowa Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Iowa
Decision Date: 1873-10-21
Citations: 36 Iowa 691
Docket Number: 
Parties: The State v. Chartrand.
Judges: 
Reporter: Iowa Reports
Volume: 36
Pages: 691–692

Head Matter:
The State v. Chartrand.
Appeal from Woodbury District Court—
Tuesday, October 21.
SUFFICIENCY OF INDICTMENT.
The defendant was arrested and arraigned on the following indictment:
“State of Iowa v. Joseph Chartrand.
“ The grand jury of the county of Woodbury, in the name and by the authority of the State of Iowa, accuse Joseph Chartrand of the crime of keeping a nuisance, committed as follows: The said Joseph Chartrand, on or about the 1st day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the county aforesaid, and at divers other times, did unlawfully and willfully keep a house of ill-fame, resorted to by divers persons, whose names are to the grand jurors unknown, for the purposes of prostitution and lewdness.”
The defendant demurred to this indictment, which being overruled, a trial was had, which resulted in a verdict of guilty, upon which the court rendered judgment. Defendant appeals.
JB. B. Wilson for the appellant — M. B. Gutts, attorney-general, for the State.

Opinion:
Pei• Curiam.
— This case involves precisely the same question passed upon in The State v. Madame Shaw, ante, and no other. It was there held that the indictment, which was in all respects like the one in this case, was not vulnerable to the demurrer.
Affirmed.