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COMMONWEALTH v. SPOFFORD

343 Mass. 703 (1962)

180 N.E.2d 673

COMMONWEALTH vs. EDWARD W. SPOFFORD.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Hampshire.

January 5, 1962.

March 1, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold Katz, for the defendant.

Edward J. McCormack, Jr., Attorney General, Leo Sontag, Assistant Attorney General, Sanford Keedy, District Attorney, Oscar Grife, Assistant District Attorney, & Joseph A. Laurano, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth, submitted briefs.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., WILLIAMS, WHITTEMORE, CUTTER, & SPIEGEL, JJ.

WILKINS, C.J.

The defendant was found guilty in the District Court of Hampshire upon a complaint charging that in Northampton on September 2, 1960, he "unlawfully did have in his possession certain obscene, indecent and impure prints, pictures, figures, images and other things for the purpose of exhibition." G.L.c. 272, § 28A (as amended through St. 1959, c. 492, § 2). From this finding he appealed to the Superior Court, where on October 13, 1960, he was...

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