...be obscene when its tendency is to excite libidinous thoughts and desires or to corrupt and deprave those, whose minds are open to such immoral influences and into whose hands it may fall. Queen vs. Hicklin, 3 Eng. L. R. QB 360; US vs. Bennett, 16 Blatch, 338; US vs. Harmon,...

...inexperienced." In Queen v. Hicfclin, LR, 3 QB 360, Cockburn, LCJ, said: "The test of obscenity is this : Whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity...whose hands a publication of this sort may fall." Judge Clark said (IT. S. v. ffeyward): "A book is said to be obscene whiih is offensive to decency...

...examine and question the truth of Christian doctrines. (6) Obscene words are such as are calculated to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences, and into whose hands such matter is likely to fall.(c) Seditious words are such as tend to bring into hatred or contempt,...

...Notwithstanding all these admitted facts the court held the pamphlet to be obscene and laid down this test: "Whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity...whose hands a publication of this sort may fall." It will be observed that it was criminal, if in the hands of any one imaginary person it might be speculatively...

...thoughts. . . The test of obscenity is this, —whether the tendency of the matter, charged as obscene, is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open...influences and into whose hands a publication of this sort might falh. Here, we can take space to analyze but one oí the numerous absurdities involved in this...

...Zenobio v. Axtell, 6 TR 162; R. v. Peltier, 28 St. Tr. 529. Obscenity.]—"The test of obscenity is whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity...corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influence, and into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall." R. v. Hicklin, LR 3 QB 371, per...

...being impure, indecent or lewd, and tend to corrupt public morals. The test is whether the tendency is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open...influences, and into whose hands a publication of the sort may fall. The word 'knowingly' in the section makes it incumbent on the prosecution to give...

...Barraclough, supra). The test of obscenity laid down by Cockburn, CJ, in R v. Hicklin, supra, was this: " Whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity...whose hands a publication of this sort may fall." If the work be obscene within this rule, its publication is an indictable misdemeanour, however innocent...

...Notwithstanding all these admitted facts, the court held the pamphlet to be obscene and laid down this test: "Whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds 249 r are open to such immoral influences and into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall."...

...Notwithstanding all these admitted facts, the court held the pamphlet to be obscene and laid down this test: "Whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds 249 are open to such immoral influences and into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall."...