State v. Mason

By the Court.

This is an appeal on questions of law from the Common Pleas Court, Division of Domestic Relations, Montgomery county, in which the defendant was charged, tried and convicted of indecent exposure of his person in the presence of three schoolgirls.

The case was tried to the court without the intervention of a jury. The trial began on January 22, and was concluded on January 23, 1948. On the morning of January 23, a news item appeared in the Dayton Journal, a newspaper published in the city of Dayton, captioned: “Sex Offenses Show Increase; Parents’ Wrath Aroused Here.’’ The…