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SOUTHLAND THEATRES, INC. v. STATE EX REL. TUCKER

No. 5-6230.

492 S.W.2d 421 (1973)

SOUTHLAND THEATRES, INC., et al., Appellants, v. STATE of Arkansas ex rel. Jim Guy TUCKER, Prosecuting Atty., Appellee.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

April 9, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Judith Rogers, N. Little Rock, for appellants, Frierson M. Graves, Jr., Memphis, Tenn., of counsel.

Morton Gitelman, Fayetteville, amicus curiae for American Civil Liberties Union of Ark., Inc.

Jim Guy Tucker, Atty. Gen., by Gene O'Daniel, Asst. Atty. Gen., Little Rock, for appellee.

GEORGE ROSE SMITH, Justice.

This proceeding in the chancery court was brought by the Prosecuting Attorney of the Sixth Judicial District to enjoin the appellants, Southland Theaters, Inc., and its employees, from showing four assertedly obscene motion pictures at Southland's theater in North Little Rock. The complaint asserts that the exhibition of the films constitutes a public nuisance, that the State's criminal remedy is inadequate, and that the showing of the...

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