Commonwealth v. Bishop

This was a complaint that the defendant on the sixteenth day of July, 1936, “in a public place . . . wherein were great numbers of people, indecently did expose to the view of the said people his body and person naked and uncovered.” Following a conviction and sentence in the District Court, on appeal the case was tried in the Superior Court, without a jury.

The defendant lived on Concord Avenue, Somerville, near its intersection with Beacon Street. A witness for the Commonwealth lived on Beacon Street near said intersection. The rear of the defendant’s house was about one hundred fifty feet…