State v. Pedigo

The defendant was convicted and fined one hundred dollars in the Lawrence county circuit court on an information charging him with being guilty of “open, gross lewdness and lascivious behavior, by then and there unlawfully, willfully and publicly, and lewdly and lasciviously, in the sight and presence of others have sexual intercourse with a female, Mattie Doss.” The defendant before his trial challenged this information by motion to quash same on the ground that such information charges in one count several separate and distinct offenses, is vague and indefinite and does not inform defendant…