State v. Aldrich

REYNOLDSON, Justice.

This appeal requires us to determine the constitutionality of our criminal statute relating to dead bodies:

“714.22 Exposing dead bodies. If any person willfully and unnecessarily, and in an improper manner, indecently expose, throw away, or abandon any human body, or the remains thereof, in any public place, or in any river, stream, pond, or other place, he shall be imprisoned * * or be fined * * *.”

A county attorney’s information filed November 6, 1973 largely restated the statute by charging defendant

“Did willfully and unnecessarily, and in an improper manner, indecently…