635. —Publie indecency. This phrase has no fixed legal meaning, is vague and indefinite. and cannot, in itself, imply a definite offense. The courts, by a kind of judicial legislation, in England and the United States, have usually limited the operation of the term to public displays of the naked person, the publication, sale, or exhibition of obecene books and prints, or the exhibition of a monster,—acts which have a direct bearing on public morals, and affect the