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DAVIS v. U.S.

No. 980.

384 U.S. 953 (1966)

DAVIS v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

May 23, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martin Garbus for petitioner. Solicitor General Marshall, Assistant Attorney General Vinson, Robert S. Erdahl and Marshall T. Golding for the United States.

Certiorari denied.

MR. JUSTICE STEWART, dissenting.

The petitioner stands convicted for sending two allegedly obscene phonograph records through the mail.1 One of the records consists almost entirely of the sounds of percussion instruments. Its title, "Erotica," is a gross misnomer. The second record is a transcription of passages from "Songs of Bilitis," a book of poems published by Pierre Louys in 1894. Pierre Louys was a French...

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