Reitzke

The defendant was charged with the crime of pimping. He was convicted and sentenced to two years’ imprisonment in the state prison. He prosecutes this appeal from the judgment and from the order denying his motion for a new trial.

The act under which he was charged is found in the Statutes of 1911, at page 10, and reads as follows:

We think the evidence is ample to show that the defendant lived on money earned by the prosecutrix as a prostitute. For a number of years prior to the time the defendant came to San Francisco he and the prosecutrix had lived together in several places in other states, in each of which the prosecutrix practiced prostitution, and out of the money so earned contributed to the support of the defendant. When he came to San Francisco, preceding her by about six months, she sent to him during that time one hundred dollars a week, and in May, 1912, she herself came to San Francisco, bringing with her one thousand seven hundred dollars. Six hundred dollars of this was spent with him 11 going around, ’ ’ and the balance she turned over to him, so she and he say, to buy “a saloon or lodging house. ’ ’ In July, 1912, she left California, and sent to him from time…