Byerley v. State

OPINION

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is the use of profane language over a telephone; the punishment, two months in jail and a fine of $200.00

In order to properly appraise appellant’s grounds of error contained in his brief filed in the trial court, it will be necessary only to outline the State’s case. The prosecuting witness, a sixteen year old school girl whose mother was employed, received a series of telephone calls from the same person on the day charged in the information. The first call was presumably in answer to an ad she had run in the newspaper offering her services as a babysitter.…