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BURKE v. KINGSLEY BOOKS

208 Misc. 150 (1955)

Adrian P. Burke, as Corporation Counsel of The City of New York, Plaintiff, v. Kingsley Books, Inc., et al., Defendants.

Supreme Court, Special Term, New York County.

June 13, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Adrian P. Burke, Former Corporation Counsel, and Peter Campbell Brown, Corporation Counsel (Milton Mollen and Murray Rudman of counsel), for plaintiff.

Emanuel Redfield for Kingsley Books, Inc., and another, defendants.

Sidney Glasser for Louis Finkelstein, doing business as Times Square Book Shop, defendant.

MATTHEW M. LEVY, J.

The Penal Law of this State has for some time made it a misdemeanor to sell or distribute "any obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, indecent or disgusting book, magazine, pamphlet, newspaper, story paper, writing, paper, phonograph record, picture, drawing, photograph, motion picture film, figure or image, or any written or printed matter of an indecent character" (Penal Law, § 1141, subd...

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