Reports of Civil and Criminal Cases Decided by the Court of Appeals of Kentucky Volume 79 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ...to the manner in which it is done, is within the common law offense of "keeping a disorderly house." In this. A disorderly house, in its restricted sense, is a house in which people abide, or to which they resort, disturbing the repose of the neighborhood; but in its more enlarged sense it includes bawdy-houses, common gaming-houses, and places of like character, to which people promiscuously resort for purposes injurious to the public morals, or health, or convenience, or safety. Nor is it essential that there be any disorder or disturbance in the sense that it disturbs the public peace or the quiet of the neighborhood. It is enough that the acts there done are contrary to law and subversive of public morals, and the result is the same whether the unlawful acts are denounced by the common law or by statute. The legislature must be the judge of what is injurious to public morals, and it having declared that betting on horse-races is immoral, it is as much an ofi"ense to invite or induce persons to habitually attend in a house for the purpose pf violating the statute as it would be if the acts there done were forbidden by the common law. (Bishop on Criminal Law, vol. 1, secs. 1106, no7, 1111, 1119, 1135, and 1136; Smith v. Commonwealth, 6 B. M., 22; I2 B. M., 3, Wilson v. Commonwealth.) Judgment affirmed. 1. The agreement between appellee Doyle and Hines and wife for the. exchange of real estate, the note from the latter to the former to be delivered by him to them as part of the contract, extinguished the note and all liens resulting therefrom. 2. The note could not be assigned by the obligee to the obligors. It was paid by the contract between them. P STANTON & LARUE I-'OR APPELLANT. The contract made...