State v. Madden

WERNICK, Justice.

A complaint filed in the District Court, District Three, Division of Southern Pen-obscot, under date of January 10, 1975, charged defendant Keith Madden with having violated 17 M.R.S.A. § 3953, the so-called “disorderly conduct” statute, 1 in that defendant

“ . . . did by offensive language, annoy a certain person, to-wit; Donald Rhodes, ... in said Old Town, by then and there saying to Donald Rhodes, ‘All Police Officers were fucking pigs’.”

The complaint was sworn to by one Stephen Hatch of the Old Town Police. At the bottom of the sheet of paper which contained the…