Case Name: PEOPLE v. DANIELAC
Court: Michigan Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1973-06-18
Citations: 389 Mich. 545
Docket Number: No. 5; Docket No. 54,027
Parties: PEOPLE v DANIELAC
Judges: T. M. Kavanagh, C. J., and T. G. Kavanagh, Swainson, and Williams, JJ., concurred.
Reporter: Michigan Reports
Volume: 389
Pages: 545–548

Head Matter:
PEOPLE v DANIELAC
Opinion of the Court
1. Appeal and Error.
Leave to appeal from the judgment of the Court of Appeals dismissed as improvidently granted.
Dissenting Opinion
T. E. Brennan and M. S. Coleman, JJ.
2. Criminal Law — Plea of Guilty — Gross Indecency.
Trial judge was correct in accepting a plea of guilty from defendant of committing an act of gross indecency of a male person with a female person where the act of defendant in having sexual intercourse with a 16-year-old girl within the total context of the orgy and before a male audience, some of whom were naked themselves and had themselves indulged in sexual perversion before the others, did constitute gross indecency (MCLA 750.338b).
3. Criminal Law — Gross Indecency.
"Gross indecency” includes those acts which separately or in concert with other acts, in public or in private, are so repulsive, indecent, lascivious or abhorrent as to shock the public conscience and to militate against the moral health, dignity and welfare of the community (MCLA 750.338b).
References for Points in Headnotes
[1] 4 Am Jur 2d, Appeal and Error §§ 58-60.
[2, 3] 50 Am Jur 2d, Lewdness, Indecency and Obscenity § 2.
Appeal from Court of Appeals, Division 1, Lesinski, C. J., and Levin and O’Hara, JJ., reversing and remanding Recorder’s Court of Detroit, Joseph A. Gillis, J.
Submitted April 3, 1973.
(No. 5
April Term 1973,
Docket No. 54,027.)
Decided June 18, 1973.
Rehearing denied July 26, 1973.
Appeal from 38 Mich App 230 dismissed.
Roman Danielac was convicted, on his plea of guilty, of committing an act of gross indecency of a male person with a female person. Defendant appealed to the Court of Appeals. Reversed and remanded. The people appeal.
Dismissed as improvidently granted.
Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, William L. Cabalan, Prosecuting Attorney, Dominick R. Carnovale, Chief, Appellate Department, and Arthur N Bishop, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.
Jack J. Kraizman, for defendant on appeal.

Opinion:
Pee Cueiam.
The issues upon which leave to appeal in this matter was heretofore granted having been thoroughly examined, and briefs thereon considered, it is the opinion of the Court that leave to appeal was improvidently granted.
T. M. Kavanagh, C. J., and T. G. Kavanagh, Swainson, and Williams, JJ., concurred.