Evidence, Competency. Disorderly House.
At the trial of a complaint charging the defendant with the common law offence of keeping and maintaining a disorderly house, it is proper to admit testimony by a police officer who had been admitted to the premises as to a conversation he had in the house with a woman inmate which showed her to be a prostitute; and, such evidence being properly admitted and the defendant not asking that its use be limited and the trial judge not limiting it, it can be used for any purpose.
WAIT, J.
The testimony of the officer was properly admitted in evidence. Commonwealth v. Kimball, 7 Gray, 328.
If properly admitted upon any ground, the evidence could be used for any purpose, unless its use was expressly limited by the court. Pegg v. Warford, 7 Md. 582. State v. Farmer, 84 Maine, 436, 440. See Higlister v. French, 180 Mass. 299, 301. Hubbard v. Allyn, 200 Mass. 166, 171.
In Commonwealth v. Harwood, 4 Gray, 41, cited by the defendant, the statements excluded were not made upon the premises nor by an inmate. That decision has no application here.
Exceptions overruled.