{ "id": 5095525, "name": "People of State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, v. Harvey M. Lackaye, Plaintiff in Error", "name_abbreviation": "People v. Lackaye", "decision_date": "1952-12-10", "docket_number": "Gen. No. 45,869", "first_page": "542", "last_page": "544", "citations": [ { "type": "official", "cite": "348 Ill. App. 542" } ], "court": { "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.", "id": 8837, "name": "Illinois Appellate Court" }, "jurisdiction": { "id": 29, "name_long": "Illinois", "name": "Ill." }, "cites_to": [ { "cite": "129 N. E. 298", "category": "reporters:state_regional", "reporter": "N.E.", "opinion_index": 0 }, { "cite": "237 Mass. 1", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Mass.", "case_ids": [ 60260 ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/mass/237/0001-01" ] }, { "cite": "242 U. S. 470", "category": "reporters:federal", "reporter": "U.S.", "case_ids": [ 3934939 ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/us/242/0470-01" ] }, { "cite": "193 Pac. 264", "category": "reporters:state_regional", "reporter": "P.", "opinion_index": 0 }, { "cite": "49 Cal. App. 239", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Cal. App.", "case_ids": [ 2060454 ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/cal-app/49/0239-01" ] }, { "cite": "318 Ill. 77", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ill.", "case_ids": [ 5152244 ], "weight": 2, "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/ill/318/0077-01" ] }, { "cite": "94 Ill. App. 648", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ill. App.", "case_ids": [ 5292496 ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/ill-app/94/0648-01" ] }, { "cite": "198 Ill. App. 376", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ill. App.", "case_ids": [ 2858195 ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/ill-app/198/0376-01" ] } ], "analysis": { "cardinality": 251, "char_count": 3169, "ocr_confidence": 0.549, "pagerank": { "raw": 3.062219746343456e-07, "percentile": 0.8567014910907933 }, "sha256": "e5342736f3682f9b16e558ffb3cde9974c725f6076db9624000de4ac3f4efe85", "simhash": "1:e16d0e0a7b8c23dd", "word_count": 528 }, "last_updated": "2023-07-14T21:56:17.120334+00:00", "provenance": { "date_added": "2019-08-29", "source": "Harvard", "batch": "2018" }, "casebody": { "judges": [], "parties": [ "People of State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, v. Harvey M. Lackaye, Plaintiff in Error." ], "opinions": [ { "text": "Mr. Justice Kiley\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\nThis is a writ of error to review the conviction of defendant of the charge of keeping \u201ca house of ill fame or place for the practice of lewdness.\u201d Par. 162, chap. 38, Ill. Rev. Stat. [1951; Jones Ill. Stats. Ann. 37.128].\nThe 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.\nThe pertinent part of par. 162 is; \u201cWhoever keeps ... a house of ill fame or place for the practice of prostitution or lewdness. . . .\u201d Defendant contends that that language defines but one crime, the keeping of a house of ill fame for the practice of prostitution; that to sustain a conviction for that crime proof of prostitution is essential; and that proof of homosexual conduct between males is not prostitution and is insufficient to sustain such a conviction.\nWe think the proof sustains the conviction. The State, under the charge, had the burden of proving that defendant kept a place for the practice of lewdness. People v. Leoni, 198 Ill. App. 376; Parker v. People, 94 Ill. App. 648. It should be noted that the information does not contain the phrase \u201cof prostitution\u201d which is in the statute. It should be noted further that par. 162 appears in chap. 38 under the Disorderly Conduct Act, pars. 159-163, and not under An Act to Prevent the Prostitution of Females, pars. 165-173 [Jones Ill. Stats. Ann. 37.124-37.129, 37.439-37.426]. Cases cited by the defendant do hold that prostitution is lewdness, but none holds that lewdness is confined to prostitution. There is no merit in the contention that proof of lewdness necessarily required proof of sexual intercourse between male and female.\nThe term \u201clewdness\u201d must be given some meaning. People v. Goldman, 318 Ill. 77. It is more comprehensive than the word \u201cprostitution.\u201d People v. Arcega, 49 Cal. App. 239, 193 Pac. 264. It includes immoral and degenerate conduct between persons of the same sex. Black\u2019s Law Dictionary (4th Ed.) page 1052. We think the legislature intended to include in par. 162 conduct of the same general class as prostitution. Caminetti v. United States, 242 U. S. 470; People v. Goldman, 318 Ill. 77. The illicit sexual acts between the men in the defendant\u2019s house are of the same general class as the illicit acts included in the term \u201cprostitution.\u201d Commonwealth v. Porter, 237 Mass. 1, 129 N. E. 298. The acts proven are sexual, induced by a degrading passion within the meaning of \u201clust\u201d in Webster\u2019s New Int. Dict. (2d Ed.), and therefore \u201clewd\u201d within the definition of the same authority.\nAffirmed.\nLews, P. J. and Feinberg, J., concur.", "type": "majority", "author": "Mr. Justice Kiley" } ], "attorneys": [ "Beryl A. Birndorf, of Chicago, for plaintiff in error.", "John S. Boyle, State\u2019s 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\u2019s Attorneys, all of Chicago, of counsel." ], "corrections": "", "head_matter": "People of State of Illinois, Defendant in Error, v. Harvey M. Lackaye, Plaintiff in Error.\nGen. No. 45,869.\nOpinion filed December 10, 1952.\nReleased for publication December 31, 1952.\nBeryl A. Birndorf, of Chicago, for plaintiff in error.\nJohn S. Boyle, State\u2019s 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\u2019s Attorneys, all of Chicago, of counsel." }, "file_name": "0542-01", "first_page_order": 564, "last_page_order": 566 }