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UNITED STATES v. WEST COAST NEWS COMPANY

No. 6615.

228 F.Supp. 171 (1964)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. WEST COAST NEWS COMPANY, Inc., a California corporation, Sanford E. Aday and Wallace De Ortega Maxey, Defendants.

United States District Court W. D. Michigan, S. D.

March 25, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George E. Hill, Dist. Atty., Robert G. Quinn, Asst. Dist. Atty., Grand Rapids, Mich., Marshall Tamor Golding, Justice Dept., Washington, D. C., for plaintiff.

Stanley Fleishman, Hollywood, Cal., VanderVeen, Freihofer & Cook, Grand Rapids, Mich., George R. Cook, Grand Rapids, Mich., of counsel, for defendants.

FOX, District Judge.

On May 24, 1960, the grand jury returned a nineteen count indictment charging the defendants1 with mailing or transporting in interstate commerce eight obscene books, in violation of Title 18 U.S.C. §§ 1461 and 1462.

After protracted pretrial matters had been disposed of,2 the trial by jury began October 29, 1963, and ended December 10, 1963.3

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