Case ID: ky-op_10/html/0925-01.html
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Author: {"author": "Judge Hines :", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Commonwealth v. William Hardin.
    [Abstract Kentucky Law Reporter, Yol. 2 — 59.]
    Criminal Law — Indictment for Indecent Exposure of the Person.
    To authorize a conviction for indecent exposure of the person the act must have been committed in a public place. If it is indictable for one to expose his person to two persons in a private place, still it is no offense to do so at the request or with the consent of such persons.
    APPEAL FROM HARDIN CIRCUIT COURT.
    
      Hardin, for appellant.
    
    
      Montgomery & Marriott, Montgomery & Poston, J. P. Hobson, for appellee.
    
    December 9, 1880.
   Opinion by

Judge Hines :

To authorize an indictment and conviction for indecent exposure of the person the act must have been committed in a public place. It must be an act affecting the public directly. If there was any doubt as to whether the indecent exposure to t-yvo persons in a private place would be indictable there can be no • doubt that it is not indictable if the exposure is so had at the solicitation or with the consent of the persons to whom the exposure is made. 1 Bishop on Criminal Law, Secs. 244 and 1125.

The indictment in this instance does not allege that the exposure of the person, which was in the presence of two other persons, was made in a public place, nor that the exposition was made without the consent of those witnessing it. The demurrer was properly sustained.

Judgment affirmed.