State v. Pedagog
State v. Pedagog
Opinion of the Court
The plaintiff in error, Lena Pedagog, was convicted upon an indictment charging her with taking money from one Hilda Benninger for bringing a man to her room in the house of the defendant, in which the Benninger woman was a tenant, for the purpose of prostitution.
The first ground upon which we are asked to reverse this conviction is that the trial court erroneously admitted testimony tending to show the commission by the plaintiff in error of an earlier and similar offense. It appears, however, from the state of the case, that after the admission of this alleged illegal testimony, the trial court said to counsel for the plaintiff in error, who had objected to its admission: “I will grant your motion with regard to this conversation. I will strike it out, and the jury will be instructed to disregard it,” It seems to us that this action of the trial court entirely cured the alleged erroneous admission of this testimony, and that what was said by the court was intended as, and was in fact, an instruction to the jury to disregard it.
The only other ground for reversal is that the verdict is against the weight of the evidence. Our examination of the testimony sent up with the writ of error satisfies us that this contention is without merit.
The conviction under review will be affirmed.
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