Rhodes v. State
Supreme Court of Florida
1Opinion of the Court
283 So.2d 351 (1973)
James E. RHODES, Appellant,
v.
The STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. 41416.
Supreme Court of Florida.
September 19, 1973.
Paul Shimek, Jr., Pensacola, for appellant.
Robert L. Shevin, Atty. Gen., and Raymond L. Marky, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.
DEKLE, Justice.
We deal here with the "old" Florida obscenity statute, § 847.011, which continues as law.[1] Two movie films publicly exhibited by appellant at his Navy Point Adult Theater in Pensacola, titled "He and She" and "Sex Family Robinson on the Farm" were found by a jury to be obscene in violation of Florida's 1967 obscenity…
Also in this document: Concurring in part, dissenting in part.
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