Criminal law — Exhibiting or permitting exhibition of obscene picture — Scienter not made element of offense — Section 2905.40, Revised Code, unconstitutional.
Per Curiam.
Section 2905.40, Revised Code, purporting to impose an absolute criminal liability upon one who operates or permits another to operate on his premises a picture machine exhibiting proscribed pictures without reference to guilty knowledge ( scienter) or guilty purpose ( mens rea) on the part of the accused is unconstitutional. City of Cincinnati v. Marshall, 172 Ohio St. 280; Smith v. California, 361 U.S. 147; State v. Warth, 173 Ohio St. 15; State v. Jacobellis, 173 Ohio St. 22.
The judgment of the Court of Appeals is reversed.
Judgment reversed.
TAFT, C.J., ZIMMERMAN, MATTHIAS, O'NEILL, GRIFFITH, HERBERT and GIBSON, JJ., concur.