Opinion filed February 9, 1925. 1. PROSTITUTION AND PANDERING — essential proof in prosecution for being inmate of house of ill-fame. Before a conviction may be had on a charge of being an inmate of a house of ill-fame, the proof must establish that the house in question is in fact a house of prostitution. 2. PROSTITUTION AND PANDERING — sufficiency of evidence on prosecution for being inmate of house of ill-fame. In a prosecution on a charge of being an inmate of a house of ill-fame where two witnesses

May 28, 1885. At the trial of an indictment for keeping a house of ill-fame, it appeared that the defendant owned the house, lived in it as its mistress, and let rooms to female lodgers, who used them for purposes of prostitution. The presiding justice instructed the jury that the defendant was guilty if she let her rooms to prostitutes for prostitution, or knowingly permitted them to be used and resorted to for that purpose, though the occupants were merely boarders or lodgers, and were not employed