Sec. 50. Prostitution—Keeping or being inmate of house
of ill fame.
Any person who shall keep a house of ill fame, resorted to
for the purpose of prostitution or lewdness, and each inmate
thereof, shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more
than two hundred dollars, or confined in jail not exceeding three
months, or both. In a prosecution of this offense the general
character of the house may be proved. (Id., § 267.)
For similar state statute, see § 4548 of Michie's Virginia Code of
1942.
