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HUDSON v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 4268, 4269.

234 A.2d 903 (1967)

Lillian M. HUDSON, Esther Sesman, Mariaelena Clark and Abe Attenson, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee. Abe ATTENSON, Hanna Bernstein and Mary A. Tobin, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided November 14, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John T. Bonner, Washington, D. C., for appellants.

Geoffrey M. Alprin, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom David G. Bress, U. S. Atty., Frank Q. Nebeker and Lawrence Lippe, Asst. U. S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before HOOD, Chief Judge, and MYERS and KELLY, Associate Judges.

MYERS, Associate Judge:

Appellants1 were convicted of staging obscene shows in the District of Columbia in violation of § 22-2001 D.C.Code (1961 ed.).2

Although in obscenity cases, as in all other cases relating to First Amendment guarantees of free expression, it is usually the duty of an appellate court to review the evidence from the trial court for the purpose of making "an independent constitutional...

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