United States v. Charles Loyd Lemons, Jr.

HEANEY, Circuit Judge.

Charles Loyd Lemons, Jr., appeals his conviction by the district court1 on one count of violating the Arkansas “sodomy” statute, Ark.Stat.Ann. § 41-1813 (1977). Lemons contends that the statute under which he was convicted, on its face, violates his constitutional right to privacy, creates a classification prohibited under the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment, and is an unconstitutional punishment of status under the eighth and fourteenth amendments. Because the statute as applied to Lemons does not infringe any protected privacy right or improperly…