Legal Opinion
State v. Lebewitz
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Decided November 10, 1972No. 42791PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Rogosheske, Justice.
Defendants, owner-licensee and manager of a commercial motion picture theater in Minneapolis, were convicted by the Hennepin County Municipal Court, sitting without a jury, of exhibiting an obscene motion picture entitled “The Art of Marriage” in violation of Minneapolis Code of Ordinances, § 870.080.1 Upon their appeal to the district court, that court after a trial de novo without a jury and on stipulated facts and exhibits, also found defendants guilty of violating the ordinance. We affirm their conviction.
Conceding, as they must, that if the film is obscene under…
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