 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1977 - 970 Seiten
...as a whole, is to prurient interest, ie, a shameful or morbid interest in nudity, sex or excretion, which goes substantially beyond customary limits of...in description or representation of such matters." § 1. On direct appeal, the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals dismissed when petitioner's appellate... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1957 - 670 Seiten
...is to prurient interest, ie, a shameful or morbid interest in nudity, sex, or excretion, and if it goes substantially beyond customary limits of candor...in description or representation of such matters. . . ." See Comment, id., at 10, and the discussion at page 29 et aeq. 21 See, eg, United States v.... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service - 1957 - 834 Seiten
...is to prurient interests, ie, a shameful or morbid interest in nudity, sex, or excretion, and if it goes substantially beyond customary limits of candor...in description or representation of such matters. The Supreme Court's Roth decision is notable for another reason. The Court was faced with answering... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 1 - 1958 - 138 Seiten
...appeal is to prurient interest, i. e_ a shameful or morbid interest in nudity, sex, or excretion, and it goes substantially beyond customary limits of candor...in description or representation of such matters. Mr. WALTER. Before you go any further, I am acquainted with this definition. "What do you think of... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service - 1959 - 76 Seiten
...is to prurient interests, ie, a shameful or morbid interest in nudity, sex, or excretion, and if it goes substantially beyond customary limits of candor...in description or representation of such matters. The Supreme Court's Roth decision is notable for another reason. The Court was faced with answering... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor - 1960 - 176 Seiten
...is to prurient interest, ie, a shameful or morbid interest in nudity, sex, or excretion, and if it goes substantially beyond customary limits of candor...in description or representation of such matters." ** Since the law's paramount objective, as avowed by the code's draftsmen, should be to stop commercial... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1967 - 2352 Seiten
...also be recognized that the Roth standard requires in the first instance a finding that the material "goes substantially beyond customary limits of candor...in description or representation of such matters." This was a requirement of the Model Penal Code test that we approved in Roth, 354 US, at 487, n. 20,... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Education and Labor - 1967 - 108 Seiten
...to prurient interest, that is, a shameful or morbid interest in nudity, sex or excretion, and if it goes substantially beyond customary limits of candor...in description or representation of such matters. This was the best we could do at that time. This was the very definition that the Supreme Court had... | |
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Obscene" means that to the average person, applying contemporary standards, the predominant appeal of the matter, taken as a whole, is to prurient interest, ie, a shameful or morbid interest in nudity, sex, or excretion, which goes substantially beyond... 
