Trinkler v. State

Supreme Court of Alabama

Trinkler v. State

272 So. 2d 282, 289 Ala. 753, 1972 Ala. LEXIS 1166

CourtSupreme Court of Alabama

DecidedDecember 21, 1972

DocketSC 188

StatusPublished

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Trinkler v. State, 272 So. 2d 282, 289 Ala. 753, 1972 Ala. LEXIS 1166 (Ala. 1972).

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MERRILL, Justice.

The Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the judgments of conviction in these three cases on the authority of McKinney v. State, 287 Ala. 648, 254 So.2d 714, cert. denied 1972, 405 U.S. 1075, 92 S.Ct. 1499, 31 L.Ed.2d 809.

The Court of Criminal Appeals made no-finding of facts in its opinion, 49 Ala.App. -, 272 So.2d 282, but implicit in its opinion,. and we so hold, is the fact that the-description of the magazines in McKinney,. supra, aptly describes the magazines in these three cases, and also applicable is the-statement that we “find that the obscenity,, vel non, of the magazines in question offends not only the local mores of Montgomery (substituted for Jefferson) County,. Alabama, but are offensive both to contemporary standards in Montgomery (again substituted for Jefferson) County and across the country.”

Writ denied.

HEFLIN, C. J., and HARWOOD,. MADDOX and FAULKNER, JJ., concur.

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MERRILL, Justice.

The Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the judgments of conviction in these three cases on the authority of McKinney v. State, 287 Ala. 648, 254 So.2d 714, cert. denied 1972, 405 U.S. 1075, 92 S.Ct. 1499, 31 L.Ed.2d 809.

The Court of Criminal Appeals made no-finding of facts in its opinion, 49 Ala.App. -, 272 So.2d 282, but implicit in its opinion,. and we so hold, is the fact that the-description of the magazines in McKinney,. supra, aptly describes the magazines in these three cases, and also applicable is the-statement that we “find that the obscenity,, vel non, of the magazines in question offends not only the local mores of Montgomery (substituted for Jefferson) County,. Alabama, but are offensive both to contemporary standards in Montgomery (again substituted for Jefferson) County and across the country.”

Writ denied.

HEFLIN, C. J., and HARWOOD,. MADDOX and FAULKNER, JJ., concur.

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