86 Mass. 313 | Mass. | 1862
The complaint alleges- that the defendant, at Lowell, on the first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, and on divers other days and times, at said Lowell, between that day and the day of making the complaint, was and still is a lewd, wanton and lascivious person in speech and behavior. The accusation against her is founded upon the provisions of the Gen. Sts. c. 165, § 28
It is not necessary in such case to conclude the complaint with the allegation that the offence was committed to the common nuisance of the people of the Commonwealth. In prosecuting offences which are in strictness nuisances, this form in pleading is considered essential; but in relation to the several offences enumerated in the statute referred to, the charge will, in general, be sufficiently set forth if the complaint and accusation are in the words by which the offence is created and described. Commonwealth v. Boon, 2 Gray, 74.
Exceptions overruled.