STATE v. ROUFA

No. 45431.

129 So.2d 743 (1961)

241 La. 474

STATE of Louisiana v. Maurice L. ROUFA.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied May 29, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack P. F. Gremillion, Atty. Gen., M. E. Culligan, Asst. Atty. Gen., Richard A. Dowling, Dist. Atty., J. David McNeill, Executive Asst. Dist. Atty., Walter E. Doane, Asst. Dist. Atty., New Orleans, for appellant.

Morey L. Sear, William M. Lucas, Jr., New Orleans, for defendant-appellee.

James T. Flanagan, E. G. Gillin, Ivor A. Trapolin, New Orleans, for amicus curiae.


HAMLIN, Justice.

Maurice L. Roufa was charged by bill of information with a violation of LSA-R.S. 14:106(2), the Louisiana Obscenity Statute.1 The trial court sustained a Motion to Quash filed by the defendant; from that judgment, the State of Louisiana has appealed.

Paragraph Two of the Louisiana Obscenity Statute recites:

"Obscenity is the intentional: "Production, sale, exhibition, possession with intention...

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