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LEIGHTON v. MD. CENSOR BOARD

[No. 259, September Term, 1965.]

242 Md. 705 (1966)

218 A.2d 179

LEIGHTON, ETC. v. MARYLAND STATE BOARD OF CENSORS

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided April 5, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard C. Whiteford, with whom was Edmund C. Grainger, Jr., on the brief, for the appellant.

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

The cause was argued before HAMMOND, HORNEY, MARBURY, OPPENHEIMER, BARNES and McWILLIAMS, JJ., and CARTER, J., Chief Judge of the Second Judicial Circuit, specially assigned.

PER CURIAM.

HORNEY, J., concurs in the result.

The order of the Circuit Court of Baltimore City which affirmed the action of the Maryland State Board of Censors in disapproving the moving picture "Dirty Girls" as obscene is reversed on the authority of Dunn v. Md. Bd. of Censors, 240 Md. 249, and Trans-Lux v. Md. Censor Board, 240 Md. 98. As in Dunn, the Board did no more...

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