# State v. Christine

> Supreme Court of Louisiana · February 15, 1960 · 239 La. 259

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9527518

## Case

- **Full name:** STATE of Louisiana v. Lilly CHRISTINE, Alias “Cat Girl”
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Louisiana
- **Decided:** February 15, 1960
- **Citations:** 239 La. 259; 118 So. 2d 403; 1960 La. LEXIS 927
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by McCALEB
- **Judges:** Fournet, McCaleb, Simon, Hamiter, Hamlin, Hawthorne
- **Cited by:** 22 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

McCALEB, Justice
(concurring).
I subscribe to the majority ruling. Obscenity, as applied to this case, is defined to be the intentional “Performance by any person, * * * in a public place or in a public manner, of any act of lewdness or "indecency, * * * ” or, stated in another way, a lezvd public performance. The word “lewd” has a broad meaning when used alone but, when associated with the words public performance, it connotes a lecherous, libidinous, lascivious performance, i. e., aentertainment or show tending to excite lustful thoughts. State v. Rose, 147 La. 243 , 84 So. 643 and State v. Saibold, 213 La415, 34 So.2d 909 .

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