State v. Wooderson

HAMITER, Justice.

In a bill of information it was charged that the defendant, on the 8th day of January, 1947, in the Parish of Orleans, “while in a public place and in a public manner, did wilfully and unlawfully and intentionally perform an act of lewdness and indecency grossly scandalous, and tending to debauch the morals and manners of the people * * Without challenging the legality of the information, he went to trial, offering the defense that on the date named he was a patient in the Charity Hospital of Louisiana in New Orleans.

The court, at the conclusion of the trial, found defendant…