Case Name: HOBGOOD v. THE STATE
Court: Court of Appeals of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1919-09-19
Citations: 24 Ga. App. 196
Docket Number: 10447
Parties: HOBGOOD v. THE STATE.
Judges: Stephens, J., concurs. Broyles, P. J., dissents.
Reporter: Georgia Appeals Reports
Volume: 24
Pages: 196–197

Head Matter:
10447.
HOBGOOD v. THE STATE.
An accusation of public indecency which, charged that the offense was committed by exposure of the private parts in a public place where the accused might have been seen by many persons, and was seen by named persons, was defective in not showing that the exposure itself was or might have been seen; and on general demurrer it should have been quashed. (Broyles, P. J., dissents.)
Decided September 19, 1919.
Accusation of public indecency; from city court of Tifton— Judge Price. March 10, 1919.
John Henry Pool, for plaintiff in error,
cited, as to accusation of public indecency: Penal Code (1910), § 381; Morris v. State, 109 Ga. 351; Lockhart v. State, 116 Ga. 557; Gilmore v. State, 118 Ga. 299, 301.
J. S. Ridgdill, solicitor, contra.

Opinion:
Bloodworth, J.
The accusation in this ease charged that the accused "did commit the following acts of public indecency, consisting of the exposing of his private parts, in a public place, said public place being near the public bathing pool in the city of Tifton, said county, said exposure being where said R. Hobgood might have been seen by many persons, and where in fact where he, the said R. Hobgood, was seen by W. W. Reynolds, Jim Webb, Earnest Sellers, Willie Powell, Roy Sháw, and others." To the accusation a demurrer was filed. The accusation is defective in that it alleges that the accused himself, instead of the indecent exposure, was seen by certain persons and might have been seen by others.
As the demurrer should have been sustained and the accusation quashed, the further proceedings were nugatory.
Judgment reversed.
Stephens, J., concurs. Broyles, P. J., dissents.