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The defendant was convicted of pandering in violation of the Statutes of 1911, page 9, 1 Deering’s General Laws of 1931, page 819, Act 1906. The information charges that he did “wilfully and unlawfully and feloniously procure for a female person ... a place as an inmate of a house of prostitution”.

The appellant contends the verdict is not supported by the evidence for the reason that the female in question was not procured to become an inmate of a house of prostitution against her will, but upon the contrary that she voluntarily entered and remained in the house. It is also asserted the court erred in the admission of testimony and in instructing the jury regarding the law of the ease.

The judgment of conviction is amply supported by the evidence in this case. It is unnecessary to recite the testimony in proof of that assertion. The defendant was acquainted with the landlady and with another inmate of a notorious house of prostitution at Marysville, called the Hollywood Rooming House. He met a seventeen year old girl by the name of Lina Limbardo who was employed in a Sacramento restaurant. After seducing her, he took her to Marysville and placed her in this house of…