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VILLAGE BOOKS v. STATE'S ATTORNEY

[No. 37, September Term, 1971.]

263 Md. 76 (1971)

282 A.2d 126

VILLAGE BOOKS, INC. ET AL. v. STATE'S ATTORNEY FOR PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Certiorari granted, judgment vacated and remanded June 25, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanley M. Dietz for appellants.

John P. Stafford, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, Arthur A. Marshall, Jr., State's Attorney for Prince George's County, and Jayson Amster, Assistant State's Attorney for Prince George's County, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before HAMMOND, C.J., and BARNES, McWILLIAMS, SINGLEY and SMITH, JJ.

Certiorari granted, judgment of Court of Appeals vacated and remanded, Supreme Court of the United States, June 25, 1973.

McWILLIAMS, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

This trek into the malodorous marshes of obscenity will be somewhat less frustrating than usual, mainly because the question presented is narrow in scope. We are required to decide only which, if any, of the magazines in question are "hard-core pornography."

Early in January 1971...

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