Are prisons are full of people who have never committed a felony -- by the truer and older understanding of what that word means.
Here in this case, mere possesion of pornography -- with no evidence, testimony as to how it was used -- is compelling enough for many to hang a man. We used to distinquish violations of soical mores from criminal felonies, but now the chamberpot also serves as the soup pot -- in our criminal law, every "social" violation is in it.
"Temperance" meant that the individual was subsumed to society, and failure to toe a current social line means one is felonious, that social "feelings" weigh more than evidence and the testimony of reliable witnesses.
Twas, once in a golden era in that regard, that the individual was king of his own actions and responsibility. That other men and women respected the individual, even when he colored outside of the normal social lines. As long as no violence was done, no contracts broken, no thefts occurred. No longer.
Coloring outside the lines is now adequate indication of evil. Yes, Mr. Westerfield, you shal be hung for closing your curtains, for driving around at whimsy, for leaving you house out -- those are serious social violations, Mr. Wesetrfield and society can no longer abide your life within it.