Case ID: ga_110/html/0292-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Lewis, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Smith, v. The State.
    Submitted December 18, 1899.
    Decided January 25, 1900.
    Certiorari. Before Judge Butt. Marion superior court. October term, 1899.
    
      Shipp & Sheppard, for plaintiff in error.
    
      S. P. Gilbert, solicitor-general, contra.
   Lewis, J.

Entering a courthouse and urinating against the door-facing therein is using the building “for an indecent purpose” within the meaning of the Penal Code, § 725; and such an act is a misdemeanor, whether as a result thereof the building is injured or defaced, or not.

Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concurring.