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ATTORNEY GEN. v. "JOHN CLELAND'S MEM. OF PLEASURE

349 Mass. 69 (1965)

206 N.E.2d 403

ATTORNEY GENERAL vs. A BOOK NAMED "JOHN CLELAND'S MEMOIRS OF A WOMAN OF PLEASURE."

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

April 22, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles Rembar of New York (Reuben Goodman with him) for the intervener.

William I. Cowin, Assistant Attorney General (John E. Sullivan, Assistant Attorney General with him), for the Attorney General.

Henry P. Monaghan for the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts & others, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., SPALDING, WHITTEMORE, CUTTER, KIRK, SPIEGEL, & REARDON, JJ.

SPALDING, J.

This is an appeal from a final decree holding the book, "John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure" (Memoirs), more commonly known as "Fanny Hill," obscene, indecent and impure under G.L.c. 272, §§ 28C, 28E, and 28F (inserted by St. 1945, c. 278, § 1).1 The petition was brought by the Attorney General. The publisher of the book, G.P. Putnam's Sons, intervened as...

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