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VILLAGE BOOKS, INC. v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA B. OF A. & R.

No. 6563.

296 A.2d 613 (1972)

VILLAGE BOOKS, INC., Petitioner, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA BOARD OF APPEALS AND REVIEW, Respondent.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided November 10, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

David P. Sutton, Asst. Corp. Counsel, with whom C. Francis Murphy, Corp. Counsel, and Richard W. Barton, Asst. Corp. Counsel, were on the brief, for respondent.

Before REILLY, Chief Judge, and FICKLING and YEAGLEY, Associate Judges.

REILLY, Chief Judge:

This case is a sequel to the conviction last year of one Frederick C. Wilhoit for selling an obscene book — a violation of D. C.Code 1967, § 22-2001 (Supp. V, 1972) — at an "adult book shop" operated by Village Books, Inc. The conviction and prison sentence imposed upon the defendant was affirmed by this court in an opinion describing the book as "pornographic filth of the grossest kind." Wilhoit v. United States, D.C.App.,...

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