(Old Bailey) The defendants were each charged with exposure to each other and the commission of lewd acts in a urinal in a market which was alleged to be a public place; no one could see in from the outside. The prosecution argued that if the defendants committed an act in a place where the public could enter and witness what was happening then that was sufficient.
Held: The place was not a public place for the purpose of the offence as everyone who entered had to expose himself and exposure to one person was not enough.
Judges:
Cresswell J
Citations:
(1848) 3 Cox CC 248
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Hamilton, Regina v CACD 16-Aug-2007
The defendant appealed his conviction for outraging public decency. He had surreptitously filmed up the skirts of women in a supermarket. The offence was only discovered after the films were found on a search of his home for other material. The . .
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Crime
Updated: 24 November 2022; Ref: scu.258780