State v. Kraft

O’NIELL, Chief Justice.

The defendant is being prosecuted under a bill of information charging that he did “have in his possession, with intent to display the same, indecent print, and movie film entitled ‘Mom and Dad,’ ” etc.

The prosecution is for an alleged violation of the second paragraph of article 106 of the Criminal Code, which denounces as a misdemeanor “obscenity,” and gives four distinct definitions of the offense, in four separate paragraphs. In the second paragraph, under which the present prosecution is brought, the offense is defined thus:

“(2) Production, sale, exhibition,…