STATE v. PRICE

No. 58119.

237 N.W.2d 813 (1976)

STATE of Iowa, Appellant, v. Kattie Mae PRICE, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

January 21, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard C. Turner, Atty. Gen., Jim P. Robbins, Asst. Atty. Gen., and David J. Dutton, County Atty., for appellant.

Walter W. Rothchild, Waterloo, for appellee.

Gordon E. Allen, Des Moines, for Iowa Civil Liberties Union, amicus curiae.

Heard before MOORE, C. J., and MASON, LeGRAND, HARRIS and McCORMICK, JJ.


McCORMICK, Justice.

We reverse a trial court ruling which sustained defendant's challenge to the constitutionality of Iowa's statute banning prostitution, § 724.1, The Code.

A county attorney's information was filed charging defendant with prostitution, alleging that "on or about the 27th day of September 1974, in the County of Black Hawk and State of Iowa, [she] did willfully, unlawfully and feloniously for the purpose of prostitution and lewdness, resort...

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