CITY OF CLEVELAND v. PUGH

No. 69194.

110 Ohio App.3d 472 (1996)

CITY OF CLEVELAND, Appellee, v. PUGH, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Ohio, Eighth District, Cuyahoga County.

Decided April 22, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carolyn Watts-Allen and Pinkey S. Carr, Assistant Prosecuting Attorneys, for appellee.

Cleveland Legal Aid Society and Keevin J. Berman, for appellant.


PATRICIA Ann BLACKMON, Judge.

Public indecency is a sex offense in Ohio, noscitur a sociis. The question before us is whether the Ohio General Assembly intended to make sex offenders out of individuals who urinate alfresco, even if they take precautions to avoid discovery. In this case, defendant-appellant, Charles Pugh, appeals his conviction for public indecency and assigns the following errors for our review:

"I. The court erred in convicting Pugh...

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