STATE EX REL. HALLOWES v. REEVES

Nos. 37731-37733.

224 So.2d 285 (1969)

STATE of Florida ex rel. William A. HALLOWES, III, As State Attorney for the Fourth Judicial Circuit of Florida, Appellant, v. Roy REEVES, Trading and Doing Business As Roy's Five Points News Center, and a Quantity of Books, Appellee. STATE of Florida ex rel. William A. HALLOWES, III, As State Attorney for the Fourth Judicial Circuit of Florida, Appellant, v. Jacob M. RACHLEFF, Trading and Doing Business As Jake's News Stand, and a Quantity of Books, Appellee. STATE of Florida ex rel. William A. HALLOWES, III, As State Attorney for the Fourth Judicial Circuit of Florida, Appellant, v. Nick KOUROUPIS, Trading and Doing Business As Nick's Newsstand, and a Quantity of Books, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Florida.

July 2, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Earl Faircloth, Atty. Gen., Reeves Bowen, Asst. Atty. Gen., William A. Hallowes, III, State's Atty. and Edward M. Booth, Asst. State's Atty., for appellant.

Walter C. Shea, Jacksonville, for appellees.


PER CURIAM.

The foregoing three cases consolidated here are direct appeals from decisions of the trial Court holding unconstitutional Section 847.011, Florida Statutes, F.S.A., generally known as the Florida Obscene Literature Law. All questions presented here were decided by this Court adversely to the appellees in the cases of State v. Reese, 222 So.2d 732, filed May 7, 1969.

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