Keene v. Commonwealth

REED, Justice.

Appellant, Armón Allen Keene, assistant manager of a motion picture theater in Louisville, Kentucky, was convicted by a jury of exhibiting an obscene motion picture in violation of KRS 436.101. The jury fixed his punishment at confinement in the county jail for six months and a $1,000 fine. Keene bases his appeal upon several points of error. We find it necessary to reverse the judgment solely because the instructions given the jury were prejudicially erroneous. Since Keene must be retried, it is necessary that we dispose of his points concerning the admissibility of the film…