State v. Hazle
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Conway Circuit Court. Hon. John J. Clendenin, Circuit Judge. The indictment describes the offence in the words of the statute, and under the rule laid down in Lemon vs. The State, 49 Ark. 171, the description is sufficiently certain. The exposing of one’s person was a misdemeanor at common 'law, and indictable as a common nuisance, but such exposure must have been in a public place, and to more than one person. Wharton’s Cr.
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Appeal from Conway Circuit Court. Hon. John J. Clendenin, Circuit Judge. The indictment describes the offence in the words of the statute, and under the rule laid down in Lemon vs. The State, 49 Ark. 171, the description is sufficiently certain. The exposing of one’s person was a misdemeanor at common 'law, and indictable as a common nuisance, but such exposure must have been in a public place, and to more than one person. Wharton’s Cr. Law 703, 704; Cruden’s Case, 2 Camp. 89; 1 Russell 302; 1 Barn. <§• Adol. 933; and such is the provision in the first clause of the statute. {Dig., chap. 51,…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice English
Indictment in the Conway Circuit Court as follows:
“ The grand jurors, etc., etc., present that Mary Hazle, late of, etc., on, etc., at, etc., unlawfully did appear in a certain, public place, partly naked, with the intent of making a public exhibition of her nudity.”
“ And the grand jurors aforesaid, upon their oaths, etc., do further present that the said Mary Hazle, on the day and year aforesaid, unlawfully did make an obscene exhibition of her person, contrary to the form of the statute in such case made and p’ vided, and against the peace and dignity of the State,” etc.
T e defendant moved…
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