Court Opinion

ID: 9720652
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 08:38:15.659452+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:24:20.293923
License: Public Domain

Wilkie, J.
(concurring in part; dissenting in part). In my concurring opinion in Court v. State, issued today, I have emphasized that in obscenity cases it is our inescapable obligation as an appellate court to make an independent determination of the question of obscenity in each case, a question of constitutional fact. Applying that scope of review here and on the basis of the proper test of obscenity as stated in that opinion, in my view (1) the poem that is the subject of one charge is obscene, *681and (2) the photograph and accompanying news article are not.