State v. Sanders

ARNOLD, Judge.

This case presents the sole question of whether a portion of G.S. 14-186 is, as the Superior Court judge found, too vague and indefinite to comport with the due process requirements of Article I, Section 19 of the North Carolina Constitution and of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. In pertinent part, G.S. 14-186 reads:

“Opposite Sexes occupying same bedroom at hotel for immoral purposes .... Any man and woman found occupying the same bedroom in any hotel, public inn or boardinghouse for any immoral purpose . . . shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor…