Tucker v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of Llano. Tried helow before Hon. W. S. Maxwell, County Judge. The opinion sets out the charging part of the indictment.
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Appeal from the County Court of Llano. Tried helow before Hon. W. S. Maxwell, County Judge. The opinion sets out the charging part of the indictment. The penalty assessed against the appellant was a fine of $25.' The proof shows that the defendant, during the term of the District Court of Llano County, and while the ladies of Llano were assembled in large numbers in the basement of the court house, making preparations for a public entertainment, pinned or pasted to the backs of the coats worn by John Potts and James Sallee pieces of paper on which were written in large letters the words, “0…
1Opinion of the Court
Willson, Judge.
It is charged in the indictment that the defendant “ did unlawfully and designedly, in public, make an obscene and indecent exhibition of the persons of others,” etc. This charge is not sustained by the evidence. By the terms “obscene and indecent exhibition of the person,” as used in article 343 of the Penal Code, is meant, we think, an exposure of those parts of the person which are commonly considered as private, and which custom and decency require should be covered and kept concealed from public sight. They do not mean or include obscene or indecent print, picture, or…
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