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247 F.2d 148

Docket No. 15083.

Mounce v. United States

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

Decided June 28, 1957.

Rehearing Denied Sept. 11, 1957.

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals · decided 1957-06-28

Cited by 16 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1966

9 federal appellate · 5 state decisions

2 counsel of record

Relies on Roth v. United States · United States v. 4200 Copies International Journal

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Opinion by (per_curiam) · Decided 1957-06-28

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¶1*149C. C. Rowan, Spokane, Wash., for appellant.

¶2William B. Bantz, U. S. Atty., and William M. Tugman, Asst. U. S. Atty., Spokane, Wash., for appellee.

¶3Before DENMAN, Chief Judge, and POPE and CHAMBERS, Circuit Judges.

¶4PER CURIAM.

¶5We are in agreement with Judge Driver’s opinion that the standard to be applied in determining whether or not publications are obscene within the meaning of § 1305(a) of Title 19 U.S. C.A. “is the judgment of the average, normal, reasonable, prudent person of the community in which the publication is circulated. If, at the time of such circulation, considered as a whole it offends the sense of propriety, morality, and decency of such average person, it is within the bar of the statute. Otherwise it is not. Guided by these general principles … the trier of facts must draw the line as best he can between art and pornography — between what is permissible and what is objectionable and obscene.”

¶6We find no error in the trial court’s findings of fact, based upon its application of this standard to the facts established by the record in this case. We adopt Judge Driver’s opinion as the opinion of the court. United States v. 4200 Copies International Journal, D.C., 134 F.Supp. 490, 493.

¶7The constitutional questions which appellant has raised in this court and which were not discussed in the opinion of the district court have been foreclosed by the decision of the Supreme Court in Roth v. United States, 77 S.Ct. 1304.

¶8The judgment is affirmed.

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