KANSAS CITY v. HAMMER

No. 48366.

347 S.W.2d 865 (1961)

KANSAS CITY, Missouri, a Municipal Corporation, Appellant, v. Harvey HAMMER, Harry Ellman, Louis Goller, Jack Rayburn, William Ruback, Ida Rayburn, Ben Eisenberg, Jack Gordon, Dorothy Gordon, Joseph D. Davenport, and Homer Smay, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 2.

July 10, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard H. Koenigsdorf, City Counselor, Manfred Maier, Asst. City Counselor, Kansas City, for appellant.

Louis Wagner, Kansas City, for respondents.


STORCKMAN, Judge.

The defendants are charged by informations filed in the Municipal Court of Kansas City with unlawfully selling, or offering for sale, obscene, lewd, licentious, indecent and lascivious publications or magazines in violation of § 39.430 of the Revised Ordinances of 1956 of the City of Kansas City, Missouri. The defendants entered pleas of not guilty in the Municipal Court and filed motions to dismiss the informations on the grounds that the ordinance...

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