Truett v. State
Alabama Court of Appeals
Appeal from Clay County Court. Heard, before Hon. E. J. Garrison. Flora Truett Avas convicted of indecent exposure of person, and appeals.
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Appeal from Clay County Court. Heard, before Hon. E. J. Garrison. Flora Truett Avas convicted of indecent exposure of person, and appeals. The indictment is as follows (omitting charging part) : “Flora Truet, alias Truit, AVhose name is to the grand jury otherAvise unknown, then and there in a public place willfully and intentionally made an indecent exposure of her person, then and there making an. uncovered exposition of her person, to wit, her privates, in the presence of divers persons then and there assembled. (2) Flora Truet (alias, etc., as in first count) then and there in a public…
1Opinion of the CourtPelham, J.
The indictment charges an indecent-exposure of the person in a public place, willfully and intentionally made by the defendant in the presence-of an assembly of divers persons.
The offense charged is indictable and punishable-at common law. 29 Cyc. p. 1316; 1 Wood on Nuisances,, c. 2, § 57.
*116The indictment contains the necessary averments to constitute the common-law offense, and the defendant’s demurrers are not well taken. No averment is necessary that the act was a nuisance, as the act complained of under the circumstances alleged is per se a public nuisance. It is a nuisance and punishable…
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