Bass v. State

The appellants were indicted and convicted for violating the law against the showing of obscene motion pictures. It was conceded that the particular picture in question was obscene and uncensored, and that the ap pellants directly participated in the exhibition of it. The only issue in the case is the technical one of the manner in which the evidence was obtained, it being contended that this was contrary to the “search and seizure” provisions of the statute and of the organic law. The indictment contains eleven counts, which include conspiracy “to unlawfully show, exhibit and expose certain…