A disorderly house is a house in which people abide or to which they resort, disturbing the repose of the neighborhood, or where the conduct of the inmates is injurious to the public morals, health, safety or conscience; and such a house includes disorderly inns, ale-houses, saloons, bawdy houses, gaming houses, stage-plays, booths and stages for rope-dancers, mountebanks and the like. Such houses under the common law are nuisances.39 And the keeping of a disorderly house is a continuing offense unless made otherwise by statute.40

35 4 Blackstone Com., 145; Underbill's Cr. Ev., Sec. 488; 1 Bish. Cr. Law, Sec. 535; Hughes' Cr. Law, Sec. 1112.

36 Piper vs. State (Tex. Cr.), 57

S. W., 1118; Pollock vs. State, 32 Tex. Cr., 29; Wilson vs. State, 59 Tenn., 278.

37 4 Blackstone, Com., 154; Fritz vs. State, 40 Ind., 18.

38 State vs. Harrell, 107 N. C, 944.

39 Hughes' Cr. Law, Sec, 1119.

Citing: State vs. Maxwell, 33

Conn., 259; Cheek vs. Com., 79 Ky., 362; State vs. Williams, 30 N. J. L., 102; Com. vs. Goodell, 165 Mass., 594; State vs. Cally, 104 N. C, 858; Thatcher vs. State, 48 Ark., 60; Cahn vs. State, 110 Ala., 56. (Meeting place of idle and dissolute persons.) 40 Reed vs. State (Tex. Cr.), 29 S. W., 1065; Com. vs. Bessler, 97 Ky., 498.