People ex rel. Lee v. Bixby

Headnote

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.