Blackstone v. Nelson

Edwin Blackstone was -indicted, tried and convicted of a misdemeanor, under an act approved August 17, 1918 (Acts 1918, p.'275), known as an act relating to venereal diseases. The particular provision of the act alleged to have been violated was as follows.: “It shall be unlawful for any one infected with these diseases, or any of them, to expose another to infection.” When the case was called for trial in the lower court the defendant filed a demurrer to the indictment, attacking the act of 1918 as unconstitutional and void for a number of reasons set out in the demurrer. The demurrer was…