Commonwealth v. Botzum

Opinion by

Watkins, J.,

This is an appeal by the defendant-appellant, Ronald Lee Botzum, from the judgment of sentence imposed by the Court of Common Pleas, Criminal Division, of Lancaster County, after conviction by a jury for violation of the Act of 1939, June 24, P. L. 872, Sec. 519,18 P.S. Sec. 4519.

The Act in question reads as follows: “Whoever commits open lewdness, or any notorious act of public indecency, tending to debauch the morals or manners of the people, is guilty of a misdemeanor. . .”

After a careful reading of the record in this case, we cannot agree that there was sufficient…