Legal Opinion

Jones v. City of Opelika

Alabama Court of Appeals

Decided March 18, 1941No. 5 Div. 109PublishedCited by 4 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

RICE, Judge-

Appellant, when arrested, was going about the streets of the City of Opelika, holding two little pamphlets in his hand, and saying to the public: “Get your two copies for five cents.”

Copies of the two pamphlets mentioned are before us, and we find in them nothing obscene or immoral; or which advocates unlawful conduct; or which is calculated to “disturb public order-” ^

Here, as in the case styled City of Cincinnati, Appellee v. Mosier, Appellant, decided by the Court of Appeals for Hamilton County (Ohio), and reported in 61 Ohio App. at page 81, 22 N.E.2d 418, the evidence…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Lovell v. City of GriffinSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
  2. City of Cincinnati v. MosierOhio Court of Appeals · 1939

3Cited by4 opinions

  1. Busey v. District of ColumbiaCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1942
  2. Jones v. City of OpelikaSupreme Court of Alabama · 1941
  3. Jones v. City of OpelikaSupreme Court of Alabama · 1942
  4. Busey v. District of ColumbiaCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1942

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