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Private Possession of Obscene Material Not a Crime

In a case on appeal from the Georgia Supreme Court, the U.S. Supreme Court
held the First Amendment, as made applicable to the States by the
Fourteenth Amendment, prohibits making mere private possession of obscene
material a crime.

During a search authorized by warrant of Stanley's home, not for obscene ...

 

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