Legal Opinion
Besig v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided October 23, 1953No. 13227PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STEPHENS, Circuit Judge.
Two books entitled respectively “Tropic of Cancer” and “Tropic of Capricorn”, which were written by Henry Miller and were printed in Paris, were intercepted at an American port of entry and libeled under Section 1305(a) of Title 19 U.S.C.A. 1 as obscene. The district court found them to be obscene and ordered them destroyed. Besig, the owner of the books, is here appealing upon the ground that neither of the two books, which are commonly referred to together as “The Tropics”, is obscene.
Since all of the evidence is in writing, we review and weigh the evidence, though…
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