State v. I. & M. Amusements, Inc.

This is an appeal as of right from a judgment against the defendant corporation in the court below wherein it was convicted of violating Section 2905.34 of the Revised Code in that it did unlawfully and knowingly exhibit an obscene motion picture film. A jury was waived in the court below and the evidence submitted solely to the judge. In this event, under the law of Ohio, the judge himself acts as the presiding officer at the trial and as a jury in determining factual issues. (See 53 Ohio Jurisprudence 2d 348 to 354, inclusive.) The appeal was heard in this court on defendant-appellant’s…