Legal Opinion
The PEOPLE v. Kimmel
Illinois Supreme Court
Decided June 16, 1966No. 38816, 38817, consPublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Schaefer
On the motion of the attorney for the defendants these two cases were consolidated in this court. Both involve prosecutions for violations of the obscenity statute, but the dominant issues in the two cases are dissimilar, and they will be discussed separately in this opinion.
In No. 38817 a jury found the defendant Charles Kimmel guilty on four counts of an indictment which charged him with possession of obscene books with intent to disseminate them. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1963, chap. 38, par. 11— 20(a).) He was fined $1000 on each count. On this appeal he challenges the constitutionality of the…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Smith v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1960
- Stanford v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
- Marcus v. Search Warrant of PropertySupreme Court of the United States · 1961
- A Quantity of Copies of Books v. KansasSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- The People v. Van ScoykIllinois Supreme Court · 1960
3Cited by21 opinions
- Flack v. Municipal Court for the Anaheim-Fullerton Judicial DistrictCalifornia Supreme Court · 1967
- People v. RidensIllinois Supreme Court · 1972
- People v. SteskalIllinois Supreme Court · 1973
- State v. BumanglagHawaii Supreme Court · 1981
- People v. TannahillAppellate Court of Illinois · 1976
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