City of Chicago v. Lord

Appellant, the city of Chicago, filed quasi-criminal complaints in the municipal court of Chicago, charging appellees, who are Sam J. Lord and his employee Charles Chertkoff, with unlawfully exhibiting for gain or profit in a place of public amusement, pictures containing obscene, lewd, indecent and immoral matter in violation of the Chicago Municipal Code. At a joint trial, the court sustained separate motions of appellees to suppress evidence consisting of six films taken by police, without search warrant and without an arrest being made, from a public amusement place owned and operated by…