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COMMONWEALTH v. ARMAO et al.

446 Pa. 325 (1972)

Commonwealth v. Armao et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

January 20, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Angelo A. Guarino and David F. Maxwell, with them Obermayer, Rebmann, Maxwell & Hippel, for appellants.

David Richman, Assistant District Attorney, with him Milton M. Stein, Assistant District Attorney, James D. Crawford, Deputy District Attorney, Richard A. Sprague, First Assistant District Attorney, and Arlen Specter, District Attorney, for Commonwealth, appellee.

Before JONES, COHEN, EAGEN, O'BRIEN, ROBERTS and POMEROY, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE ROBERTS, January 20, 1972:

We must here decide whether the Pennsylvania statute pertaining to criminal libel, Act of June 24, 1939, P.L. 872, § 412, 18 P.S. § 4412,1 and the Act of April 11, 1901, P.L. 74, § 1, 19 P.S. § 801,2 as modified by Article I, Section 7 of the Pennsylvania Constitution,3

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