WASHINGTON--The Supreme Court, ruling that freedom of the press and religion had been abridged, today tossed out Texas court convictions of two mem- bers of the Jehovah Witnesses religious sects on charges of distributing literature in violation of city ordinances.
The decisions appeared to reverse a series of past rulings in roughly similar cases involving other members of the sect in various states. Both were unanimous although newly-appointed Justice Wiley B. Rutledge did not participate
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