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GENERAL CORP. v. STATE EX REL. SWEETON

SC 521.

320 So.2d 668 (1975)

GENERAL CORPORATION, a corporation, v. STATE of Alabama ex rel. Eugene SWEETON, Chief of Police, City of Huntsville, Alabama.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

September 18, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frierson M. Graves, Jr., Memphis, Tenn., for appellant.

Watts, Salmon, Roberts, Manning & Noojin, Huntsville, for appellee.

ALMON, Justice.*

The question presented by this appeal is whether the Alabama Red Light Abatement Act, Tit. 7, § 1091 et seq., Code of Alabama 1940, Recompiled 1958, can be constitutionally applied to the exhibition of obscene motion pictures. More specifically, whether the showing of obscene motion pictures constitutes a public nuisance, the sanction for which is the padlocking of the premises for up to one year.

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