Conn. Gen. Stat. § 53a-194

Current with legislation from the 2024 Regular and Special Sessions.

Section 53a-194 - Obscenity: Class B misdemeanor

(a) A person is guilty of obscenity when, knowing its content and character, he promotes, or possesses with intent to promote, any obscene material or performance.

(b) Obscenity is a class B misdemeanor.

Conn. Gen. Stat. § 53a-194

(1969, P.A. 828, S. 196.)

State has burden of presenting evidence of contemporary community standards in prosecution for obscenity, except where performance is so offensive that no conceivable community standard would permit it. 174 C. 46. Cited. 193 Conn. 612. Cited. 28 Conn.App. 91. Obscenity statute is not so vague or overly broad as to violate federal standards; section is presently immune from attack upon the grounds of vagueness or overbreadth at the federal level. 32 Conn.Supp. 639. Cited. 33 CS 681; 38 Conn.Supp. 570. Cited. 6 Conn. Cir. Ct. 656.