Commonwealth v. Calloway

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Mh.lf.-r.

Affirming.

This prosecution against H. B. Calloway, manager of the Columbia Picture Show Company, in Frankfort, was begun by a warrant issued from the police court of the *522city of Frankfort, charging him with exhibiting obscene and indecent pictures in front of a theater on Main street, in violation of an ordinance of the city of Frankfort. The judge of the police court sustained a demurrer to the warrant, and dismissed the prosecution. The Commonwealth appealed to the circuit court, and a trial in that court, before the judge sitting as a jury,…