 | Canada, W. J. Tremeear - Annotations and citations (Law) - 1908 - 1100 pages
...Zenobio v. Axtell, 6 TR 162; R. v. Peltier, 28 St. Tr. 529. Obscenity.] — "The test of obscenity is whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is' to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influence, and into whose hand* a publication... | |
 | Medicine - 1909 - 556 pages
...Notwithstanding all these admitted facts the court held the pamphlet to be obscene and laid down this test : "Whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences and into whose hands a publication... | |
 | Theodore Schroeder - Criminal act - 1911 - 452 pages
...488. MMontross vs. State, 72 Ga. 266. minds of those open to the influence of such thought. * * * * Whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influence, and into whose hands a publication... | |
 | Theodore Schroeder - Freedom of the press - 1911 - 452 pages
...488. MMontross vs. State, 72 Ga. 266. .minds of those open to the influence of such thought. * * * * Whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influence, and into whose hands a publication... | |
 | Frances Fenton - Communication - 1911 - 112 pages
...defendant to be printed in the interests of Protestant religion, "I think the test of obscenity is this: Whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences, and into whose hands a publication... | |
 | Criminal law - 1913 - 584 pages
...Cockburn, CJ, in The Queen v. Hicklin, LR 3 QB at p. 371, where he says : "The test of obscenity, is this, whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences, and into whose hands a publication... | |
 | American Sociological Association - Sociology - 1913 - 650 pages
...classical English case in which the defendant was convicted on a criminal charge, the test of guilt being "whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences and into whose hands a publication... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1920 - 1028 pages
...9, 212, 213, affirmed 96 NY 408, 48 Am. Rep. 635. est as to what is an obscence publication is : her the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave or :hose whose minds are open to such immoral influences, and who might o contact with it." People v.... | |
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I think the test of obscenity is this, whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences, and into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall. 
