Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York April 16, 1985 (People v. Davilla)

The defendant was convicted after a jury trial of promoting prostitution in the third degree and sentenced to a term of from 2 to 6 years. Penal Law § 230.25 (1), defining the crime of which the defendant was convicted, makes it a class D felony to profit from prostitution “by managing, supervising, controlling or owning, either alone or in association with others, a house of prostitution”.