 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.  The Federal Reporter - Page 1611904Full view - About this book
 | Great Britain. Magistrates' cases - Justices of the peace - 1870 - 668 pages
...and 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...into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall. Now, with regard to this work, it is quite certain that it would suggest to the minds of the young... | |
 | Great Britain. Magistrates' cases - Justices of the peace - 1870 - 672 pages
...and I think the test of obscenity is this, whether the tendency of the matter charged as obecouity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open...and into whose hands a publication of this sort may fallNow, with regard to this work, it is quite certain that it would suggest to the minds of the young... | |
 | Edward William Cox - Criminal law - 1871 - 856 pages
...and 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...into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall. Now, with regard to this work, it is quite certain that it would suggest to the minds of the young... | |
 | Samuel Robinson Clarke - Criminal law - 1872 - 762 pages
...indictable, (e) The test of an obscene publication is whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open...into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall. (/) It is no defence to an indictment for such a publication that the object of the party was laudable... | |
 | Samuel Robinson Clarke - Criminal justice, Administration of - 1872 - 762 pages
...indictable. (e) The test of an obscene publication is whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open...into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall. ( / ) It is no defence to an indictment for such a publication that the object of the party was laudable... | |
 | Law - 1872 - 218 pages
...Lordship, "the test of obscenity is this — whether the tendency of the the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open...into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall. One more observation as to the defence in Dixon v. Smith. Why, the plaintiffs counsel asked, was not... | |
 | Law - 1873 - 680 pages
...Lordship, "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...whose hands a publication of this sort may fall." Cue more observation as to the defence in Dixon v. Smith. Why, the plaintiff's counsel asked, was not... | |
 | Nicholas St. John Green - Criminal law - 1879 - 838 pages
...and 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...into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall. Now, with regard to this work, it is quite certain that it would suggest to the minds of the young... | |
 | India - Criminal law - 1874 - 656 pages
...Cockburn, CJ, " 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...influences, and into whose hands a publication of the sort may fall." Therefore, where a person was indicted for selling a book called "The Confessional... | |
 | Law - 1920 - 516 pages
...when he said that 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 influences and into whose hands the publication may fall. An interesting criticism of this case is offered by the New York Law Journal... | |
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