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FREEDMAN v. STATE

[No. 144, September Term, 1963.]

233 Md. 498 (1964)

197 A.2d 232

FREEDMAN v. STATE

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided February 10, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Felix Bilgrey and Richard C. Whiteford, with whom were Due, Whiteford, Taylor & Preston on the brief, for appellant.

Robert F. Sweeney, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Thomas B. Finan, Attorney General, William J. O'Donnell, State's Attorney, and Robert F. Freeze, Assistant State's Attorney, on the brief, for appellee.

Brief Amicus Curiae filed by J. Cookman Boyd, Jr., Sidney A. Schreiber and Barbara A. Scott for Motion Picture Association of America, Inc.

The cause was argued before HENDERSON, HAMMOND, PRESCOTT, MARBURY and SYBERT, JJ.

Reversed, 380 U.S. 51.

SYBERT, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

In order to test the constitutionality of the Maryland motion picture censorship statute, the appellant invited arrest by exhibiting the motion picture film "Revenge at Daybreak" at a theatre in Baltimore City without first having submitted the film to the Maryland State Board of Motion Picture Censors for approval and licensing, as required by Code (1957...

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