DEBTOR AND CREDITOR.

1075. Sending Claims Out of State.

1076. Assignment of Claim for Collection.

1075. Sending Claims Out of State-Whosoever, whether principal, agent, or attorney, sends or causes to be sent to persons, companies, or corporations out of the State of Oklahoma, any claim for debt to be collected by proceedings in attachment, garnishment, or other mesne process, or which is thereafter attempted to be collected, when the creditor, debtor, and person or corporation owing for the earnings intended to be reached by such proceedings in attachment or garnishment, are all within the jurisdiction of the courts of the State of Oklahoma, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof be fined for every claim so sent a sum of not more than one thousand dollars nor less than five hundred dollars. (2911 R. L. 1910)

1076. Assignment of Claim for Collection-Whosoever, directly or indirectly, assigns or transfers any claim or debt against a citizen of Oklahoma for the purpose of having the same collected by proceedings in attachment, garnishment, or other process, or which is thereafter attempted to be so collected out of the wages or personal earnings of the debtor, in courts outside of the State of Oklahoma, when the creditor, the debtor, and the person or corporation owing the money intended to be reached by the proceedings in attachment or garnishment, are all within the jurisdiction of the courts of the State of Oklahoma, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not more than one thousand dollars, nor less than five hundred dollars or imprisonment in the county jail of not less than thirty days, nor more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment. (2912 R. L. 1910)

For other penal provisions on this subject, see chapter 25, R. L. 1910.

ARTICLE XVIII.

DENTISTRY.

1077. Practice Regulated.

1078.

Violation-Misdemeanor.

1077. Practice Regulated-It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to practice or to offer to practice dentistry or dental surgery under the name of any company, association, or corporation, except those who have been in actual practice of dentistry under the name of a company, association, or corporation in the State of Oklahoma for fifteen years or more prior to the first day of January, 1917, and every person or persons practicing or offering to practice dentistry or dental surgery shall practice under his or her own respective name or names only. Each and every person in a dental office practicing or offering to practice dentistry or dental surgery shall have his or her certificate of the State Board of Examiners for the State of Oklahoma displayed in plain view in his or her operating room. (S. L. 1917, 408)

1078. Violation-Misdemeanor-Any person violating the provisions of section 1077 of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five ($25) dollars, nor more than one hundred ($100) dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed thirty (30) days. (S. L. 1917, 408)

1079. Bawdy House. 1080.

Disorderly House.

DISORDERLY HOUSE.

1081. Letting Building for Unlawful Purpose.

1079. Bawdy-House-Any person who keeps any bawdyhouse, house of ill-fame, of assignation, or of prostitution, or any other house, or place for persons to visit for unlawful sexual intercourse, or for any other lewd, obsence, or indecent purpose, is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars for each offense. (2467 R. L. 1910)

"Bawdy house"-"House of Ill Fame," are synonymous. v. State, 9 Okla. Cr. 564, 132 Pac. 693.

Patterson

Carroll v.

Evidence of general reputation of house is admissible. State, 4 Okla. Cr. 242; Smith v. State, 6 Okla. Cr. 380, 118 Pac. 1003; Putnam v. State, 9 Okla. Cr. 535, 132 Pac. 916.

State must show that the house is a bawdy house, and that the defendant was the keeper thereof. State may show reputation of people who resorted to house, but need not show particular acts of lewdness. From reputation of house and of the people who resort thereto, lewdness will be presumed. Nelson v. Terr., 5 Okla. 512.

1080. Disorderly House-Any person who keeps any disorderly house, or any house of public resort by which the peace, comfort, or decency of the immediate neighborhood is habitually disturbed, is guilty of a misdemeanor. (2468 R. L. 1910)

1081. Letting Building for Unlawful Purposes-Any person who lets any building or portion of any building knowing that it is intended to be used for any purpose declared punishable by this article, or who otherwise permits any building or portion of a building to be so used, is guilty of a misdemeanor. (2469 R. L. 1910)

A house that is being used for unlawful sexual intercourse is used for an unlawful purpose. Oligschlager v. Terr., 15 Okla. 141.

Indictment held sufficient. Swaggart v. Terr., 6 Okla. 346; Irwin v. State, 15 Okla. Cr. 260, 176 P. 83.

1082. Disturbing Lawful Meeting-Any person who, without authority of law, wilfully disturbs or breaks up any assembly or meeting, not unlawful in its character, other than a religious meeting, public meeting of electors, or funeral, is guilty of a misdemeanor. (2557 R. L. 1910)

1083. Disturbing Public Meeting-Any person who wilfully disturbs or breaks up any public meeting of electors and others, lawfully being held for the purpose of considering public questions, is guilty of a misdemeanor. (2125 R. L.

1910)

1084. Breach of the Peace Profane Language-If any person shall make use of any profane, violent, abusive, or insulting language toward or about another person, in the presence or hearing, which language, in its common acceptation, is calculated to arouse to anger the person about or to whom it is spoken or addressed, or to cause a breach of the peace or an assault, every such person shall be deemed guilty of a breach of the peace, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine in any sum not to exceed $100, or by imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court or jury trying the same. (S. L. 1911, 136)

1085. Breach of Peace-If any person shall wilfully or maliciously disturb, either by day or night, the peace and quiet of any city of the first class, town, village, neighborhood or family by loud or unusual noise, or by abusive, violent, obscene or profane language, whether addressed to the party so disturbed or some other person, or by threatening to fight, quarreling or challenging to fight, or fighting, or shooting off any firearms, or brandishing the same, or by running any horse at unusual speed along any street, alley, highway, or public road, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not to exceed $100, or by imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed

thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court or jury trying the same. (S. L. 1911, 135)

1086. Disturbing Funerals-Any person who wilfully disturbs, interrupts or disquiets any assemblage of people met for the purpose of any funeral, or who, without authority of law, obstructs or detains any person engaged in carrying or accompanying any dead body of a human being to a place of burial, is guilty of a misdemeanor. (2461 R. L. 1910)

1087. Disturbing Religious Meeting-Any person who wilfully disturbs, interrupts, or disquiets any assemblage or people met for religious worship, by any of the acts or things hereinafter enumerated, is guilty of a misdemeanor. R. L. 1910)

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1088. Definition of Disturbance The following are the acts deemed to constitute disturbance of a religious meeting: First: Uttering any profane discourse, committing any rude or indecent act, or making any unecessary noise, either within the place where such meeting is held, or so near it as to disturb the order and solemnity of the meeting.

Second: Exhibiting within one mile any shows or plays without a license by the proper authority.

Third: Engaging in, or aiding or promoting within the like distance, any racing of animals or gaming of any description.

Fourth: Obstructing in any manner, without authority of law, within the like distance, the free passage along any highway to the place of such meeting. (2413 R. L. 1910)

A "religious meeting" is an assemblage of people met for the purpose of performing acts of adoration to the Supreme Being, or to perform religious services in recognition of God as an object of worship, love and obedience. The celebration of the birth of Christ is a "religious service" in commemoration of an event upon which the hopes and destinies of all Christians depend. Cline v. State, 9 Okla. Cr. 40, 130 P. 510.