TAYLOR v. STATE EX REL. KIRKPATRICK


529 S.W.2d 692 (1975)

Grady TAYLOR et al., Appellants, v. STATE of Tennessee on relation of Carl K. KIRKPATRICK, District Attorney General for Sullivan County, Tennessee, Appellee. Grady TAYLOR and Eastern Amusement, Inc., a corporation, Appellants, v. STATE of Tennessee on relation of Carl K. KIRKPATRICK, District Attorney General for Sullivan County, Tennessee, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

October 20, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry C. Bowyer, Kingsport, Frierson M. Graves, Jr., Heiskell, Donelson, Adams, Williams & Wall, Memphis, for appellants.

William C. Koch, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, R.A. Ashley, Jr., Atty. Gen., for appellee.


OPINION

BROCK, Justice.

The issues in the three captioned causes are identical and involve the construction and validity of Chapter 510, Public Acts of 1974, regulating obscenity. We are deciding all of them in this single opinion. In each case the trial court has found certain motion picture films being exhibited to the public by the appellants to be obscene according to the provisions of Chapter 510 of the Public Acts of 1974, codified as T.C.A. §...

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