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COMMONWEALTH v. ROBIN

421 Pa. 70 (1966)

Commonwealth v. Robin, Appellant. Commonwealth v. Grove Press, Inc., Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

March 22, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Rogers Carroll and Howard Gittis, with them Alan H. Molod, and Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen, for appellants.

David L. Creskoff, Assistant District Attorney, with him Joseph M. Smith, Assistant District Attorney, and Arlen Specter, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.

Julian E. Goldberg, with him Gilbert M. Cantor, for amicus curiae.

Before BELL, C.J., MUSMANNO, JONES, COHEN, EAGEN, O'BRIEN and ROBERTS, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE COHEN, March 22, 1966:

The Supreme Court of the United States held in Grove Press, Inc. v. Gerstein, 378 U.S. 577, 12 L. Ed. 2d 1035, 84 S.Ct. 1909 (1964), that it is an unconstitutional abridgement of the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution of the United States for the State of Florida to enjoin, pursuant to its obscenity statute, the circulation of the book "Tropic of Cancer". In State...

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