Peggy Stephenson Bryant v. State

Appellant was charged by information in ten separate counts with keeping a bawdy house on ten separate days. The court submitted to the jury the issue of appellants guilt under five counts who returned into court their verdicts finding her not guilty under Count No. 1 alleged to have been committed on or about February 19, 1955, and guilty under Counts Nos. 2, 3, 4, and 5 of the offenses alleged to have been committed on or about the respective dates of March 3, 1955, May 13, 1955, September 24, 1955, and October 16, 1955, and assessing her punishment at twenty days in jail and a fine of $200.00 in each count. The judgment rendered herein was that the State of Texas recover of the appellant the sum of $200.00 and she be imprisoned in jail for twenty days in each of the Counts Nos. 2, 3, 4, and 5.