Chester McKinney v. James C. Parsons, Chief of Police, Etc.

GEE, Circuit Judge:

In May of 1971, Chester McKinney was convicted by the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, Alabama, of six violations of the obscenity ordinance of the City of Birmingham. 1 He appeals the Northern District of Alabama’s second 2 denial of habeas corpus relief. Since we find no constitutional infirmity in his convictions, we affirm.

Upon first filing his habeas corpus petition McKinney advanced three grounds upon which the writ should issue. It was his contention (1) that the four magazines and two films involved in the case are not, as a matter of constitutional law, obscene…