MR. PRESIDING JUSTICE WHEAT delivered the opinion of the court.
Defendant Thompson was found guilty by jury verdict of the crime of keeping a house of ill fame and was sentenced to pay a fine in the sum of $200 and to serve one year at the Illinois State Farm at Vandalia. Only one assigned error is argued: that the giving of the following instruction for the People constitutes reversible error:
"The Court instructs the jury in the language of the Statute that...
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