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HB 181, 56th R.S.
Relating to amending the Penal Code relative to immoral or depraved publications, motion pictures, phonograph records, penny arcade machine pictures and indecent objects, so as to provide that the editing, publishing or dissemination of any pamphlet, magazine, phonograph record or any printed paper devoted mainly to the publication of whoring, lechery, assignation, intrigues between men and women or immoral conduct of persons, or of depraved acts showing violent brutality, or knowingly possessing or keeping for sale or distribution or assisting in the sale or distribution of any such, or the showing of lewd, lascivious, obscene, indecent, immoral pictures on the cover, jacket, or frontispiece of any pamphlet, magazine, or any printed matter shall be a misdemeanor offense; providing a penalty for violation of this Act.

Author: Robert Ellis "Bob; Big Daddy" Johnson, Sr.
Coauthor: Robert H. "Bob" Hughes | Ben Atwell

Subjects:
Communications & Press
Crimes--Against Morals
MOTION PICTURE & RECORDING INDUSTRY


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