WILHOIT v. UNITED STATES

No. 5710.

279 A.2d 505 (1971)

Frederick C. WILHOIT, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided July 13, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanley M. Dietz, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

James F. McMullin, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Thomas A. Flannery, U. S. Atty., John A. Terry and Lester B. Seidel, Asst. U. S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before FICKLING, KERN and PAIR, Associate Judges.


PAIR, Associate Judge.

Appellant, then the proprietor of what has been described as the "World's Largest Adult Book Store," sold to an undercover officer of the Metropolitan Police Department a book entitled "The Teeny Suckers."1 For this reason appellant was arrested and charged with a violation. D.C. Code 1967, § 22-2001 (Supp. III, 1970).2 After trial without a jury, appellant was found guilty and sentenced...

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