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ATTORNEY GENERAL v. "GOD'S LITTLE ACRE"

326 Mass. 281 (1950)

93 N.E.2d 819

ATTORNEY GENERAL vs. THE BOOK NAMED "GOD'S LITTLE ACRE."

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

July 26, 1950.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J.J. Kelleher, (J.J. Bresnahan, Assistant Attorney General, & L.E. Ryan with him,) for the petitioner.

R.W. Meserve, (J.B. Ullman with him,) for Erskine Caldwell and others.

Present: QUA, C.J., LUMMUS, RONAN, WILKINS, SPALDING, WILLIAMS, & COUNIHAN, JJ.

SPALDING, J.

The Attorney General under the provisions of G.L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 272, §§ 28C-28G, as inserted by St. 1945, c. 278, § 1, seeks by this petition to have the novel "God's Little Acre" by Erskine Caldwell adjudicated obscene, indecent, or impure. In an answer filed by persons interested in the book it was admitted that it was being sold and distributed in this Commonwealth. From a final decree in favor of the book the Attorney General appealed...

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