Seller v. Jenkins

It is an indictable criminal offence for a man to make an indecent exposure of his person in a public place and in the presence of other persons, and such an of-fence is punishable by imprisonment. Ardery v. State, 56 Ind. 328. Where the defendant utters words charging the plaintiff with an indictable offence punishable by imprisonment, the words are, as a general rule, deemed slanderous *431per se, and we think that this rule applies where the- words impute to the plaintiff the offence of public indecency under our statute. Gibbs v. Dewey, 5 Cow. 503; Brooks v. Harison, 91 N. Y. 83; Lemons v.…