Case ID: ohio-st_173/html/0015-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The State of Ohio, Appellee, v. Warth, Appellant.
    (No. 36964
    Decided January 17, 1962.)
    
      Mr. Arthur O. Fisher, city prosecutor, Mr. Henry W. Phillips and Mr. Edward J. Duffy, Jr., for appellee.
    
      Messrs. Wright, Harlor, Morris, Arnold & Glander, for appellant.
   Per Curiam.

Section 2905.342, Revised Code, making it a misdemeanor to have in one’s possession an obscene motion picture film, without reference to knowledge or scienter on the part of an accused, is unconstitutional. City of Cincinnati v. Marshall, 172 Ohio St., 280; Smith v. California, 361 U. S., 147.

The judgment of the Court of Appeals is reversed.

Judgment reversed.

Zimmerman, acting C. J., Radcliff, Taft, Matthias, Bell and Herbert, JJ., concur.

Zimmerman, J., sitting in the place and stead of Weygandt, C. J.

Radcliff, J., of the Fourth Appellate District, sitting by designation in the place and stead of Zimmerman, J.