Case Name: STATE of Louisiana, Appellee, v. GAY TIMES, INC., Appellant
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1974-04-29
Citations: 294 So. 2d 496
Docket Number: No. 52366
Parties: STATE of Louisiana, Appellee, v. GAY TIMES, INC., Appellant.
Judges: SANDERS, C. J, 'dissents for the reasons assigned in his dissent in State v. Shreveport News Agency, Inc, La, 287 So.2d 464.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 294
Pages: 496–498

Head Matter:
STATE of Louisiana, Appellee, v. GAY TIMES, INC., Appellant.
No. 52366.
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
April 29, 1974.
Rehearing Denied June 7, 1974.
Michael Silvers, New Orleans, for appellant.
William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jim Garrison, Harry F. Connick, Dist. Attys., Louise Korns, Asst. Dist. Atty., for appellee.

Opinion:
TATE, Justice.
We previously affirmed the conviction of the defendant. State v. Gay Times, Inc., 274 So.2d 162 (1973). In that opinion, we rejected the contention of the defendant that La.R.S. 14:106, subd. A(2) was unconstitutional. This statute defines obscenity as the intentional "production, sale, exhibition, gift, or advertisement [of publications, motion pictures, etc.] with the intent to primarily appeal to the prurient interest of the average person
The United States Supreme Court granted the defendant's petition for writ of cer-tiorari, vacated the conviction, and remanded the case to this court for our further consideration in the light of Miller v. California, 413 U.S. 15, 93 S.Ct. 2607, 37 L.Ed. 2d 419 (1973), and related decisions. Gay Times, Inc. v. Louisiana, 414 U.S. 994, 94 S.Ct. 346, 38 L.Ed.2d 232 (1973). This was identical to the earlier action of the United States Supreme Court in reversing this court's earlier upholding of the constitutionality of the cited obscenity statute in State v. Gulf States Theatres of La., Inc., La, 270 So.2d 547 (1972), judgment vacated and case remanded to this court, 413 U.S. 913, 93 S.Ct. 3063, 37 L.Ed.2d 1037 (1973).
On the remand in the latter decision, applying the mandate of the United States Supreme Court, we held the cited obscenity statute unconstitutional. State v. Gulf States Theatres of La., Inc, 287 So.2d 496 (1973). See, also, State v. Shreveport News Agency, Inc., La., 287 So.2d 464 (1973); State v. McNutt, La., 287 So.2d 478 (1973); Gulf States Theatres of La., Inc. v. Richardson, La., 287 So.2d 480 (1973).
For the reasons assigned in these decisions, which held the obscenity statute upon which this prosecution is based to be unconstitutional in the light of the mandate of the United States Supreme Court, the conviction and sentence of the defendant are set aside and the defendant is ordered discharged.
Conviction set aside pursuant to mandate of the United States Supreme Court.
SANDERS, C. J, 'dissents for the reasons assigned in his dissent in State v. Shreveport News Agency, Inc, La, 287 So.2d 464.
SUMMERS, J, dissents for the reasons assigned.
MARCUS, J, dissents and will assign reasons.