Pathe Exchange, Inc. v. Cobb

Hinman, J.:

Section 5 of chapter 715 of the Laws of 1921 contains the limits of the power and authority of such Commission so far as material here and reads as follows: “ The Commission shall cause to be promptly examined every motion-picture film submitted to it as herein required, and unless such film or a part thereof is obscene, indecent, immoral, inhuman, sacrilegious, or is of such a character that its exhibition would tend to corrupt morals or incite to crime, shall issue a license therefor.’^)

The pictures to which the "provisions of section 5 are applicable are those which come under…