Prostitution within the meaning of the statute defining abduction, signifies the practice of prostituting or offering the body of the female to an indiscriminate intercourse with men for hire, and not to one man only.117

111 Ill. Stat., Ch. 38, Sec. 1.

112 Ill. Stat., Ch. 38, Sec. 2.

113 Henderson vs. People, 124 El., 614; State vs. Bobbst., 131

Mo., 328.

114 State vs. Johnson, 115 Mo., 480. 115 State vs. Gibson, 111 Mo., 92. 116 2 McClain Cr. Law, Sec. 1102.

If a single woman lives with a man without limit as to duration of time of illicit intercourse, she is regarded as his concubine.118

Chaste life and conversation, and chaste life and previous character, mean practically the same thing.119

The term "conversation" mentioned in the statute means the manner of living.120

The female must possess actual personal virtue and chaste life and conversation as distinguished from good reputation.121

But the prosecution is not required in the first instance to introduce evidence as to the chastity of the female. The law presumes that the previous life and conversation of the female were chaste and the burden is on the accused to show otherwise.122