Commonwealth v. O'Brien

This was a complaint alleging that the defendant “ during the three months next before the finding of this complaint was a lewd, wanton and lascivious person in speech and behavior.” Pub. Sts. c. 207, § 29. The evidence was that on one night at two o’clock the police found the defendant in his shirt, trowsers and stockings, in a room with two women who were but slightly clothed and two men, one of whom was dressed and the other in bed. The party had had .food and whiskey. Lewd talk was heard before the police were admitted, and also an exclamation which was explained .by one of the women in…