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DUNN v. MD. BD. OF CENSORS

[No. 260, September Term, 1965.]

240 Md. 249 (1965)

213 A.2d 751

DUNN ET AL. v. MARYLAND STATE BOARD OF CENSORS

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided October 20, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William M. Nickerson, with whom were Richard C. Whiteford and Due, Whiteford, Taylor & Preston on the brief, for the appellants.

Fred Oken, Assistant Attorney General, with whom was Thomas B. Finan, Attorney General, on the brief, for the appellee.

The cause was argued before PRESCOTT, C.J., and HAMMOND, HORNEY, MARBURY, OPPENHEIMER and McWILLIAMS, JJ., and PROCTOR, J., Associate Judge of the Third Judicial Circuit, specially assigned.

HAMMOND, J., delivered the majority opinion of the Court. HORNEY, J., dissents. Dissenting opinion at page 257, infra.

The Maryland State Board of Censors refused to license the motion picture "Lorna" and then, as required by Sec. 19 of Art. 66A of the Code as reenacted by Ch. 598 of the Laws of 1965, applied to the Circuit Court of Baltimore City "* * * for a judicial determination as to whether such film is obscene, or tends to debase or corrupt morals, or...

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