R v George Thallman

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date01 January 1863
Date01 January 1863
CourtCrown Court

English Reports Citation: 169 E.R. 1416

Crown Cases

Regina
and
George Thallman

S. C. 3 New Rep 141, 22 L J. M C 58, 9 L T. 425, 27 J P. 790, 12 W R. 88; 9 Cox C. C 388. Referred to, R v. Saunders, 1875, 45 L J M C 11

1416 REGINA V.GEORGE THALLMAN LE. & CA. 327. 1863 regixa r george thallman (The prisoner indecently exposed himself on the roof of a house in view from the back windows of several other houses, und was actually seen by seven persons from one of those windows, but he could not be seen from any public highway. Held, that the place where the prisoner exposed himself was a public place, and that he had committed an indictable misdemeanor ) [S. ('. 3 New Rep HI , 33 L J. M C 58 , 9 L T. 425 , 27 J P. 790 , 12 W R. 88 ; 9 Cox C. C 388. Referred to, R v. Sounder, 1875, 45 L J M C 11 J The following case was stated by the Deputy Assistant Judge ot the Middlesex Sessions The prisoner was tried before me, in the second Court, at the Middlesex Sessions, on the 25th of August last, on un indictment which charged that he in a certain open and public place that is to say on the loof of the dwelling house of one Cr H. Cook situate in a certain open and public street and common highway called Albernarle Street in the parish of Saint George Hanover Square and near the dwelling houses [327] of divers of the liege subjects of the Queen situate in that parish and also in and near the said open and public street and common highway called Albemarle Street and within the sight and view of Elizabeth Anlsebrook and Mary Day and of many other of the liege subject;- of the Queen there residing and dwelling and along and through the open and public .street and common highway there going returning passing and repaying did unlawfully wilfully publicly and indecently expose his person and private parts naked and did continue on the roof of the said dwelling-house and near the dwelling-houses aforesaid &c &c with his person exposed &c. for the space of twenty minutes to the great damage and common nuisance of the said E. A. and M. D. and of all other the liege subjects of the Queen then and there being aaid then and there residing and dwelling and along and through the open and public street and common highway aforesaid going returning passing and repassmg and against the peace &c The prisoner lived as a servant at a house, No 4, in Albemarle Street, Piccadilly, ajicl on the 31st of July, while several female servants belonging to a Club-house wrere going to...

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  • R v Simon Austin Hamilton
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 16 Agosto 2007
    ...If there had been others in such a situation that they could have seen the prisoner, there would have been a criminal offence�. viii) In Thallman (1863) 9 Cox CC 388, the defendant exposed himself on the roof of a house in Albemarle Street, Piccadilly opposite to a window in a house where f......
  • Toh Teong Seng v Public Prosecutor
    • Singapore
    • High Court (Singapore)
    • 13 Abril 1995
    ...Pugh v Knipe [1972] RTR 286 (refd) R v Burgess [1941] MLJ 123 (refd) R v Kane [1965] 1 All ER 705 (refd) R v Thallman (1863) Le & Ca 326; 169 ER 1416 (refd) R v Waters (1963) 47 Cr App R 149 (refd) R v Wellard (1884) 14 QBD 63 (refd) Tulshi Das v King-EmperorAIR 1924 All 768 (not folld) War......

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