2 Ga. App. 445 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1907
Lizzie McConnell was convicted of the offense o£ keeping a lewd house. Her motion for a new trial was overruled, and she brings the case to this court. The principal ground of error assigned is that the verdict is without any evidence to support it, and therefore contrary to law. To determine this question, it is necessary to consider the evidence for the State, which, briefly stated, is as follows: The defendant was a negro woman living in a house containing nine rooms, mostly bedrooms, located in what might be called the “tenderloin” district of Savannah. Living in the house with her were her son and one negro girl attendant. It was proved by several police officers in the city that the general reputation of the house was that of an assignation or lewd house, and such had been its general reputation for several years. A short time prior to the arrest of the defendant for keeping a lewd house, it was shown that she had rented a room in her house to a young white woman wto was brought there at midnight in a hack by a white man, and that while this woman
Without going into a consideration of the evidence, we content ourselves with the statement that there were other facts and circumstances proved, along with the general reputation of the house, which warranted the verdict of the jury... What might be called the general complexion of the place had the appearance of lewdness, and there were several leprous spots in this complexion which strongly pointed to the existence of immorality. This court can not say that there was no evidence to support the verdict, or that the trial court abused its discretion in refusing to grant a new trial. Judgment affirmed.