Tucker v. Texas

Tucker v. Texas
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued December 6, 1945 Decided January 7, 1946
Full case name	Tucker v. State of Texas
Citations	326 U.S. 517 (more) 66 S. Ct. 274; 90 L. Ed. 274; 1946 U.S. LEXIS 2927
Case history
Prior	State of Texas v. Tucker, Justice Court of Medina County, Texas (not reported); Tucker v. State of Texas, County Court of Medina County, Texas (not reported)
Holding
Held that a statute used to punish an individual for refusing to refrain from religious activity is an improper restriction on freedom of the press and religion.
Court membership
Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone Associate Justices Hugo Black · Stanley F. Reed Felix Frankfurter · William O. Douglas Frank Murphy · Robert H. Jackson Wiley B. Rutledge · Harold H. Burton
Case opinions
Majority	Black, joined by Douglas, Frankfurter, Murphy, Rutledge
Concurrence	Frankfurter
Dissent	Stone, Reed, Burton
Jackson took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. I; U.S. Const. amend. XIV, §1; Tex. Pen. Code, Chap. 3, Art. 479 (1945)

Tucker v. Texas, 326 U.S. 517 (1946), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that a state statute making it an offense to distribute literature in a federal government-owned town was an improper restriction on freedom of the press and religion.^[1]