State v. Watson

BECTON, Judge.

Defendant, Judy Faye Watson, was charged in two bills of indictment with four counts of disseminating obscenity in violation of N.C. Gen. Stat. Sec. 14-190.1 (1986) and was convicted by a jury of two of the four counts. From judgments entered on the verdicts, defendant appeals. Her arguments on appeal relate to 1) five alleged errors in the jury instructions, 2) the denial of her motion to dismiss for insufficient evidence of scienter, 3) the exclusion of “comparable” materials offered by defendant as evidence of the community standard, and 4) the denial of her motion to dismiss…