...to be 'whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences and into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall'.1 This is a vague objective test which would include innumerable works of literature from Shakespeare...

...definition of obscenity in Regina \. Hifklin (1868) as the tendency *to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences and into whose hands a publication of this sort might fall') remained the ruling legislation until 1959. At a time when criticisms of 'intrusive' policing...

...this, whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences, and into...whose hands a publication of this sort may fall." It is interesting to find how the dictionary def1nition of "obscenity" so nearly is within the meaning...

...Regina v. Hicklin. The court defined obscenity as that which tended "to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences, and into...whose hands a publication of this sort may fall." This definition came to be known as the Hicklin test. It was a landmark decision because it allowed,...

...this, whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences, and into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall. (At p. 371) The focus on the "corruption of morals" in the earlier legislation grew out of the English...

...these books was wherher che rendency ot the matrer was to deprave and cotrupr those whose lives were open to such immoral influences and into whose hands a publication of this sort might fall. There were plenty ot people who would be neither depraved nor cotrupred by reading a book...

...227; State ». Warren, 113 NC, 683. matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences, and into...whose hands a publication of this sort may fall." 29 The test may be open to fair criticism as being too subjective in point of form, offensive to Americans...

...tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to immoral influences and into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall."57 As the Victorian era drew to a close, however, such formulaic mumbojumbo began to be examined...

...is this, whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscene is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences, and into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall" (Regina v. Hicklin). The test, according to the Gathings Committee Report, applied "to the passages...

...the effect of sexual material: specifically, whether it tended "to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences and into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall" — that is, the lower classes. (This posed a problem to our American pretense of being a classless...