Legal Opinion
In Re Davis
California Court of Appeal
Decided June 3, 1966No. Crim. 11822PublishedCited by 51 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKaus, J.
Petitioners Jeanne Davis and Harlan Clay Davis, husband and wife, were each convicted in the municipal court of violating that portion of section 650% of the Penal Code which makes it a misdemeanor “wilfully and wrongfully” to commit any act “which openly outrages public decency,” provided that no other punishment for such act is prescribed by the Penal Code.
In the same trial Jeanne Davis was acquitted of a charge of violating section 314, subdivision 1, of the Penal Code; a charge of violating section 314, subdivision 2, of the Penal Code against Harlan was dismissed in furtherance of…
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