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PEOPLE v. LACKAYE

Gen. No. 45,869.

348 Ill. App. 542 (1952)

109 N.E.2d 390

People of State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, v. Harvey M. Lackaye, Plaintiff in Error.

Appellate Court of Illinois.

Released for publication December 31, 1952.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

BERYL A. BIRNDORF, of Chicago, for plaintiff in error.

JOHN S. BOYLE, State's Attorney of Cook county, of Chicago, for defendant in error; JOHN T. GALLAGHER, RUDOLPH L. JANEGA, ARTHUR F. MANNING, WILLIAM J. McGAH, JR., and EUGENE WELKER, Assistant State's Attorneys, all of Chicago, of counsel.

MR. JUSTICE KILEY delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a writ of error to review the conviction of defendant of the charge of keeping "a house of ill fame or place for the practice of lewdness." Par. 162, chap. 38, Ill. Rev. Stat. [1951; Jones Ill. Stats. Ann. 37.128].

The question is whether the uncontroverted testimony of homosexual conduct between males performed in a bath house sustains the conviction of defendant, keeper of the house.

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