Hirsch

Defendant was charged, under the act against pandering (Stats. 1911, p. 9), with having procured for a female person a place as an inmate in a house of prostitution. Upon trial he was convicted, and took an appeal to this court from the judgment and order denying his motion for a new trial.

The appellant contends that the evidence does not show that defendant procured a place as inmate in a house of prostitution for the'woman, because, as he contends, the evidence shows that although he took the woman to the house and made application to the keeper of the house to allow the woman to go to work there as a prostitute, and she was in fact allowed to enter and remain in the house for the night and until she was arrested by the police officers the next day, it was upon condition that she should not go to work or receive visitors until she had reported to and been registered by the police department, and had passed the clinic as required by the practice of the police department.

The argument being that under the statute and the charge as made, a woman cannot be said to have received a place as an immate of a house of prostitution until she has been received into such a house with the…