 | Anthony Comstock - 1880 - 598 strani
...follows: Whether the tendency of tlie matter charged as obscenity, is to deprave and corrupt those whoso minds are open to such immoral influences, and into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall. We find then that even if there were no statute, the common law prohibits obscene publications, and... | |
 | William Blake Odgers - 1881 - 836 strani
...for such an act is destructive of morality in general, and may affect all the subjects of the realm. The test of obscenity is this : — " Whether the...whose hands a publication of this sort may fall." (Per Cockburn, CJ, in 7i'. v. HicJclin, LR 3 QB 371 ; 37 LJMC 89 ; 16 WR 801 ; 18 LT 395; 11 Cox, CC... | |
 | Samuel Robinson Clarke, Henry Pigott Sheppard - 1882 - 638 strani
...The test of an obscene publication is whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is U> deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to...into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall. (I) It is no defence to an indictment for such a publication that the object of the party was laudable... | |
 | Samuel Robinson Clarke, Henry Pigott Sheppard - 1882 - 642 strani
...of an obscene publication is whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to ileprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral...influences, and into whose hands a publication of this sort rnay fall. (I) It is no defence to an indictment for such a publication that the object of the party... | |
 | Charles Sweet - 1882 - 946 strani
...condition. (See Bond.} OBSCENE— OBSCENITY.— A publication is said to be obscene when its tendency is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences, and into whose hands it is likely to fall.' Obscene publications or libels are punishable with fine or imprisonment, being... | |
 | 1885 - 704 strani
...was stated in Regina v. Hicklin (L. Ji. 3 QB 30t)) to be. whether the tendency of the matter to be charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those...whose minds are open to such immoral influences, and who might come in contact with it. We think it would also be a proper test of obscenity in a painting... | |
 | 1922 - 624 strani
...Muller, 32 Hun, 209, 212, 213; affd. 96 NY 408.) The test as to what is an obscene publication is: " Whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave or corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences and who might come into contact with... | |
 | Francis Wharton - 1885 - 944 strani
...State, 1 Swan, 42 ; State r. Appling, 25 Mo. 315. . In R. ». Hicklin, LR 3 QB 360, Cockburn, CJ, said: "The test of obscenity is this, whether the tendency...corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral ¡поит 433 Obscenity Indictable or to publicly utter obscene language ;' and so of any aTcommon... | |
 | 1885 - 1156 strani
...the tendency of the matter is to deprave and corrupt the morals of those whose minds are open to such influences, and into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall," was held not to be erroneous. United States t>. Bennett, 16 Blatch., 338 (gS 2180-39). See § 957.... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1885 - 1000 strani
...indecent or obscene. The test of an obscene book was stated in Regina \. Hicklin, L. R., 3 QB 369, to be, whether the tendency- of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave or corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences and who might come into contact with... | |
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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. 
