POLICE COMM'R v. SIEGEL, ETC., INC.

[No. 243, September Term, 1959.]

223 Md. 110 (1960)

162 A.2d 727

POLICE COMMISSIONER OF BALTIMORE CITY ET AL. v. SIEGEL ENTERPRISES, INC., ETC.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided July 1, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James H. Norris, Jr., Special Assistant Attorney General, with whom was C. Ferdinand Sybert, Attorney General, on the brief, for the appellants.

Cornelius P. Mundy, with whom were William Greenfeld, Martin B. Greenfeld and Albert B. Polovoy on the brief, for the appellee.

The cause was argued before BRUNE, C.J., and HENDERSON, HAMMOND, PRESCOTT and HORNEY, JJ.


PRESCOTT, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

A large portion of the opinion of Judge Oppenheimer, who sat below, will be quoted, and adopted as the major part of the opinion of this Court. Judge Oppenheimer stated:

"The plaintiff, the owner of two newsstands and bookstores in Baltimore, asks that the Crime Comic Books Act of Maryland (Code, 1957, Article 27, Sections 420-425, as amended by Chapter 197 of the Acts of 1959) be declared unconstitutional...

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