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ROBERT ARTHUR MANAGEMENT CORP. v. STATE

414 S.W.2d 638 (1967)

ROBERT ARTHUR MANAGEMENT CORP., Appellant, v. STATE of Tennessee ex rel. Phil M. CANALE, Jr., District Attorney General, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

March 27, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frierson M. Graves, Jr., Memphis, for appellant, Heiskell, Donelson, Adams, Williams & Wall, Memphis, of counsel.

George F. McCanless, Atty. Gen., and Thomas E. Fox, Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, Sam J. Catanzaro, and Jesse Clyde Mason, Asst. Dist. Attys. Gen., Memphis, prosecuted the case for the State in the trial court.

OPINION

DYER, Justice.

The constitutionality of a statutory scheme prohibiting obscene materials, by use of the injunctive process, is at issue here. This statute, enacted by Chapter 93 of the Public Acts of 1965, is now carried in Tennessee Code Annotated as Sections 39-3005, 39-3006 and 39-3007. Under this statute the Criminal Court of Shelby County found the motion picture film "Mondo Freudo" and an advertising trailer "Olga's Girls" to be obscene. The...

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