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PEOPLE v. VILLANO

Calendar No. 14, Docket No. 49,776.

369 Mich. 428 (1963)

120 N.W.2d 204

PEOPLE v. VILLANO.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided March 7, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, Samuel H. Olsen, Prosecuting Attorney, Samuel J. Torina and Angelo A. Pentolino, Assistant Prosecuting Attorneys, for the people.

Max E. Klayman and George Stone (Lawrence J. Ellenbogan, of counsel), for defendant.

Amicus Curiae:

Rolland R. O'Hare, Erwin Ellmann, and Bruce A. Miller, for American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan, asking reversal.

CARR, C.J.

This criminal prosecution was instituted in the recorder's court of the city of Detroit for an alleged violation of section 343a of the Michigan penal code* added to the code by PA 1957, No 265. Said added section read as follows:

"Sec. 343a. Any person who sells, lends, gives away, distributes, shows or transmutes or offers to sell, lend, give away, distribute, show or transmute...

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