Court Opinion

ID: 9549653
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 18:22:47.606554+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:20:40.384768
License: Public Domain

BUSSEY, Presiding Judge,
specially concurring:
The acts complained of fall adequately within the purview of 21 O.S.1971, § 1021 for which specific punishment is provided, thus removing it from the provision of 21 O.S.1971, § 22, which states in pertinent part:
“. . .or which openly outrages public decency, and is injurious to public morals, although no punishment is expressly prescribed therefor by this Code. . .”
For this reason I join my colleague, Judge Brett in affirming the action of the trial court. I would further observe that where a specific act is defined and a punishment prescribed therefor under the laws of the State of Oklahoma, the prosecution should not be laid under the general provisions of 21 O.S. 1971, § 22.