Jurgen and the Law
by Guy Holt
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About this eBook
- Editor
- Holt, Guy, 1892-1934
- Title
- Jurgen and the law : A statement, with exhibits, of the Court's opinion, and the brief for the defendants on motion to direct an acquittal
- Original Publication
- United States: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1922, pubdate 1923.
- Credits
- Charlene Taylor, Terry Jeffress and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
- Subject
- Cabell, James Branch, 1879-1958. Jurgen
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 71475
- Release Date
- August 24, 2023
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Jurgen and the Law
- 2.A STATEMENT — II — III
- 3.INDEX
- 4.Untitled
- 5.1—The Question presented is one of law, which the Court should decide.
- 6.2—The test is the literary as distinct from the pornographic.
- 7.3—In applying this test, all reasonable doubt should be resolved in favor of the book.
- 8.4—In judging the book by the standards above indicated, it must be read as a whole, and, on that basis, it must be upheld even though it may contain portions which would not stand the test if isolated.
- 9.5—The book, read as a whole, sustains the test of the law.
- 10.6—The passages, to which reference has been made in the complaint originally filed in Special Sessions, are not indecent.
- 11.7—In conclusion.
- 12.Untitled
- 13.Untitled
- 14.Untitled
- 15.Footnotes — Transcriber’s Notes
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