RHODES v. STATE

No. 41416.

283 So.2d 351 (1973)

James E. RHODES, Appellant, v. The STATE of Florida, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Florida.

September 19, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul Shimek, Jr., Pensacola, for appellant.

Robert L. Shevin, Atty. Gen., and Raymond L. Marky, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.


DEKLE, Justice.

We deal here with the "old" Florida obscenity statute, § 847.011, which continues as law.1 Two movie films publicly exhibited by appellant at his Navy Point Adult Theater in Pensacola, titled "He and She" and "Sex Family Robinson on the Farm" were found by a jury to be obscene in violation of Florida's 1967 obscenity statute, § 847.011, which prohibits the sale, distribution...

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