...indictment and prosecution in many works which might be referred to. Now, it is not to be said that because there are in many standard and established...this, whether the tendency of the matter charged as obecouity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences, and into...

...publication of any obscene writings is unlawful and indictable. (e) The test of an obscene publication is whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity...into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall, (/) It is no defence to an indictment for such a publication that the object of the party was laudable...

...publication of any obscene writings is unlawful and indictable. (e) The test of an obscene publication is whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity...into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall. ( / ) It is no defence to an indictment for such a publication that the object of the party was laudable...

...НieЫtп. " I â think," says his Lordship, "the test of obscenity is this — whether the tendency of the the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and...into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall. One more observation as to the defence in Dixon v. Smith. Why, the plaintiffs counsel asked, was not...

...down by Lord Chief-Justice Cockburn in the case of Ilcrj. v. Hieklin, " I think," said his Lordship, "the test of obscenity is this —whether the tendency...whose hands a publication of this sort may fall." Cue more observation as to the defence in Dixon v. Smith. Why, the plaintiff's counsel asked, was not...

...distinction between the two cases will generally be bold enough. In the language of Cockburn, CJ, " the test of obscenity is this, whether the tendency...influences, and into whose hands a publication of the sort may fall." Therefore, where a person was indicted for selling a book called "The Confessional...

...of obscenity was given by Cockburn, CJ, in 11 Cox CC 191, when he said that the test of obscenity is whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity...open to such immoral influences and into whose hands the publication may fall. An interesting criticism of this case is offered by the New York Law Journal...

...inserted." — Rex v. Hicklin, L. Rep. 32, B. 371. In a recent case,1 the test of obscenity was said to be " whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity...influences, and into whose hands a publication of the sort may fall." This latter was a case where a pamphlet, called "The Confessional Unmasked ; professing...

...People, 89 Ш. 441; Bell v. State, 1 Swan, 42. In R. v. Hicklin, LR 3 QB 360, Cockburn, CJ, said : " The test of obscenity is this, whether the tendency...those whose minds are open to such immoral influences ; " " a definition," says the Alb. LJ, June 21, 1879, " which was substantially adopted by Judge Benedict...

...Justice Cockburn in Rex v. Hicklin, LR 3 QB 360, "where the tendency of the matter charged as obscene is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open...into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall, and where it would suggest to the minds of the young of either sex, or even to persons of more advanced...