Casanova

Defendant appeals from a judgment of conviction upon an indictment charging her with perjury and from an order denying her a new trial. The perjury is alleged to have been committed by her in the course of her testimony on the trial of a criminal action wherein she was charged with maintaining a disorderly house for the purposes of assignation and prostitution.

At all the times mentioned herein defendant kept and maintained a hotel in the city of San Diego known as the New Mexico Hotel. On December 20, 1920, by a criminal complaint filed in the justice’s court of the city of San Diego, it was charged that the defendant there, who is likewise the defendant and appellant here, did, on or about December 18, 1920, keep, conduct, and maintain said New Mexico Hotel for the purposes of assignation and prostitution, and did then and there rent a room therein knowing that it was to be used for the purposes of assignation and prostitution. On the trial of that charge the defendant, after having been duly sworn as a witness, testified that she did not know of any room in her hotel ever being rented for immoral purposes or for purposes of assignation or immoral conduct. She was acquitted of…