Legal Opinion
Wyman Hulan Parr v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided June 11, 1958No. 16697_1PublishedCited by 87 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JONES, Circuit Judge.
This appeal is from a conviction of conspiring to transport in interstate commerce lewd and obscene motion picture film. 18 U.S.C.A. §§ 371, 1465. There are a number of specifications of error.
The Government was permitted to exhibit to the jury some of the film over the appellant’s objection and offer to stipulate that the film was lewd and obscene. This, the appellant says, would tend to arouse the sympathies and prejudices of the jury, so that the admission of the evidence was an error prejudicing his right to a fair and impartial trial. The admission would, to be sure,…
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- Dunning v. Maine Central RailroadSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1897
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