Legal Opinion
Marsh v. Alabama
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 28, 1946No. 114Published
1Opinion of the Court 1
326 U.S. 501 (1946)
MARSH
v.
ALABAMA.
No. 114.
Supreme Court of United States.
Argued December 6, 1945.
Decided January 7, 1946.
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF APPEALS OF ALABAMA.
Mr. Hayden C. Covington, with whom Mr. Grover C. Powell was on the brief, for appellant.
William M. McQueen, Attorney General of Alabama, and John O. Harris, Assistant Attorney General, submitted for appellee.
2Opinion of the Court · BlackJustice Black
In this case we are asked to decide whether a State, consistently with the First and Fourteenth Amendments, can impose criminal punishment on a person who undertakes to distribute religious literature on the premises of a…
Also in this document: Concurrence; Dissent.
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