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. Essays and Miscellanies - Page 134by Joseph Smith Auerbach - 1922Full view - About this book
| Great Britain. Magistrates' cases - 1870 - 668 pages
...that obscene works are the subject-matter of indictment ; 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 to such immoral influences, and into whose hands a publication... | |
| Edward William Cox - 1871 - 856 pages
...that obscene works are the subject-matter of indictment; 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 to such immoral influences, and into whose hands a publication... | |
| Samuel Robinson Clarke - 1872 - 778 pages
...publication of any obscene writings is unlawful and 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 to such immoral influences, and into whose hands a publication... | |
| Samuel Robinson Clarke - 1872 - 762 pages
...publication of any obscene writings is unlawful and 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 to such immoral influences, and into whose hands a publication... | |
| 1873 - 680 pages
...Cockburn in the case of Ilcrj. v. Hieklin, " I think," said his 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 to such immoral influences, and into whose hands a publication... | |
| Nicholas St. John Green - 1879 - 838 pages
...that obscene works are the subject-matter of indictment ; 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 to such immoral influences, and into whose hands a publication... | |
| 1920 - 516 pages
...of obscenity was given by Cockburn, CJ, in 11 Cox CC 191, 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... | |
| India - 1874 - 656 pages
...cases will generally be bold enough. In the language of 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 to such immoral influences, and into whose hands a publication... | |
| Appleton Morgan - 1875 - 538 pages
...inserted." — Rex v. Hicklin, L. Rep. 32, B. 371. In a recent case,1 the test of obscenity was said to be " 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... | |
| Francis Wharton - 1880 - 858 pages
...that obscene works are the subject matter of indictment; 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 to such immoral influences, and into whose hands a publication... | |
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