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HEWITT v. MD. ST. BD. OF CENSORS

[No. 74, September Term, 1969.]

255 Md. 528 (1969)

258 A.2d 217

HEWITT T/A BALTIMORE FILM SOCIETY v. MARYLAND STATE BOARD OF CENSORS

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided November 10, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert M. Wright and Richard C. Whiteford for appellant.

Thomas N. Biddison, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, with whom was Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before HAMMOND, C.J., and BARNES, McWILLIAMS, SINGLEY and SMITH, JJ.

HAMMOND, C.J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

We here decide the first moving picture censorship case since the passage of Ch. 598 of the Laws of 1965, now § 19 of Art. 66A of the Code, in which (by stipulation of the parties) we have not had to view the suspect film. Our relief at this is great and joy fills our hearts. The exhibitor here, in claiming the right to show the films without the approval of the Board of Censors, does not say they are not obscene...

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