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HANKINS v. UNITED STATES

No. 1744.

120 A.2d 590 (1956)

Jacob Morris HANKINS, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided February 17, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eugene J. Schubert, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

E. Tillman Stirling, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Leo A. Rover, U. S. Atty., Lewis Carroll and Richard J. Snider, Asst. U. S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before CAYTON, Chief Judge, and HOOD and QUINN, Associate Judges.

QUINN, Associate Judge.

On January 5, 1955, after conviction appellant was sentenced by the trial court on a charge of possessing and selling obscene literature and pictures in violation of D.C. Code 1951, § 22-2001. He was given a sentence of one year and a fine of $300 and in default of payment was to be imprisoned for an additional year. The penalty provided for this offense is a fine of not less than $50 nor more than $500, or imprisonment for not more than...

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