State v. Keyhole Publishing Co.

For nearly one hundred and fifty years, or at least as far back as 1824, Connecticut has had on its books a criminal antiobscenity statute.1 In 1963, the General Assembly enacted legislation (General Statutes §§ 53-244a to 53-244m), supplementing existing criminal sanctions (§ 53-243) and authorizing the use of civil remedies, by way of limited injunctive relief under judicially controlled safeguards, designed and calculated to control at the source2 the sale and distribution of “mailable *356matter,”3 or printed or written matter or material,4 found, after trial, to be obscene5; provision is…