SHUMAKER v. STATE

No. 26353.

256 S.W.2d 576 (1953)

SHUMAKER v. STATE.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

April 8, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clarence L. Waters, San Antonio, for appellant.

Wesley Dice, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is the unlawful showing and exhibition of lewd and lascivious motion pictures, as denounced by Article 527, Vernon's Ann.P.C.; the punishment, a fine of $500.

The prosecutrix testified that, in company with one Thompson, she went to the home of appellant; that she was there furnished a bottle of beer and a glass of whiskey, and the appellant then exhibited a motion picture to the group there assembled. She described the movie as...

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