Case ID: ny-sup-ct_11/html/0636-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Davis, P. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

THE PEOPLE ex rel. EMMA LEE and others v. BUTLER H. BIXBY AND OTHERS, CONSTITUTING A COURT OF SPECIAL Sessions, Respondents.
    
      Indecent exposure — ‘ ‘ Public place ’ ’ — Joint comiction.
    
    Where six women made an indecent exposure of their persons for hire, in the presence of five men, in a room in the rear of the second story of a house of prostitution, the doors, windows and shutters being closed, held, that the room where it occurred was a “ public place,” and that the women were properly convicted of the crime of indecent exposure.
    The offense being a misdemeanor committed by all the relators at the same time, each aiding and abetting every other, held, that they might be jointly prosecuted and convicted. (Rex v. Orchard, 3 Cox, 248; Rex v. Harris, 11 id., 659.)
    Certiorari to review the conviction of the relators of the crime of indecent exposure.
    
      
      William F. Howe, for the relators.
    
      B. K. Phelps, district attorney, for the respondents.
   Opinion by

Davis, P. J.

Brady and Daniels, JJ., concurred.

Proceedings affirmed and writ dismissed.