Byous v. State

Debn, Judge.

1. The defendant was convicted under Code § 26-6101 penalizing “any notorious act of public indecency tending to debauch the morals.” He was seen on three occasions, twice by children waiting for the school bus which stopped in front of the defendant’s house and again by the children and a parent of one of them. Each instance occurred in the twilight of an early December morning; the defendant, after apparently looking out to ascertain that children were present, stood in the archway at the rear of an unlighted room silhouetted against the light of the second room, dropped his…