People ex rel. Lee v. Bixby

By the Court, Davis, P. J.

Two questions are made in this case.

First. That the indecent exposure was not made in a “public place.”

Second. That the relators could not be jointly prosecuted and convicted. As to the first of these questions, we are of opinion that the exhibition made by the six relators, for money, to the five men present and paying therefor, made the room where it occurred a public place within the meaning of the statute, although it was a room in a house of prostitution, and not open to the general public. Any place may be made public by a temporary assemblage, (Bishop on…