TRALINS v. GERSTEIN

No. 62-370.

151 So.2d 19 (1963)

S. Robert TRALINS, for himself, and "Pleasure Was My Business," as a book, Appellant, v. Richard E. GERSTEIN, as State Attorney, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida. Third District.

Rehearing Denied April 3, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard Dixon, Tobias Simon, Miami, Richard Yale Feder, Miami Beach, and Daniel L. Ginsberg, Miami, for appellant.

Richard E. Gerstein, State Atty., Glenn C. Mincer and Joseph Durant, Asst. State Attys., Richard W. Ervin, Atty. Gen., and David U. Tumin, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

Before HORTON, BARKDULL and HENDRY, JJ.


HORTON, Judge.

Appellant, defendant below, seeks review of an adverse final decree finding the book, "Pleasure Was My Business," to be obscene and condemned by the Florida Statutes, and enjoining its publication or dissemination. We affirm.

On March 6, 1961, the appellee, as state attorney, filed a complaint for declaratory decree under the provisions of Chapter 87, Fla. Stat., F.S.A., and the then applicable statute relating to obscene literature § 847...

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