State v. Givens

*115Gordon, J.

Vagueness of Statute.

The appellants argue that the disorderly conduct statute is too vague to be enforced. Sec. 947.01 (1), Stats., quoted above, sets forth six specific types of conduct which are proscribed; this covers conduct that is “violent, abusive, indecent, profane, boisterous, [or] unreasonably loud thereafter the statute contains a so-called “catchall” clause which prohibits “otherwise disorderly conduct” which tends to “provoke a disturbance.”

It has often been held that a criminal statute must be definite enough to inform those who are subject to it as to what acts will…