Messina v. State

The court, sitting without a jury, found the appellant guilty of the common law crime of indecent exposure after overruling a motion for a directed verdict at the conclusion of all of the evidence. Under the rules, we do not decide whether the appellant was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt; merely, whether in law the evidence is sufficient to permit the trial court to have done so, and can set the verdict aside only if his conclusions from the evidence were clearly erroneous.

The accusers of the appellant are two thirteen year old girls who were walking on the sidewalk along Northern Parkway…