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MARQUES v. STATE

[No. 80, September Term, 1972.]

267 Md. 542 (1973)

298 A.2d 408

MARQUES T/A GLEN NEWS BOOKSTORE v. STATE OF MARYLAND

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided January 4, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard P. Jeweler, with whom were Gordon H. Levy and Edelman, Levy & Rubenstein on the brief, for appellant.

John P. Stafford, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, Edward F. Borgerding, Assistant Attorney General, Raymond G. Thieme, Jr., State's Attorney for Anne Arundel County, and David R. Cutler, Assistant State's Attorney for Anne Arundel County, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before MURPHY, C.J., and BARNES, McWILLIAMS, SINGLEY, SMITH, DIGGES and LEVINE, JJ.

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

In October 1971, as an adjunct to his Glen Burnie book-store, the appellant (Marques) was operating, for the delectation of the local yeomanry, a battery of "peepshows" all conceded to be hard-core pornography and none bearing the seal of the Maryland State Board of Censors. Since the law frowns upon this sort of thing, Code (1971 Repl. Vol.), Art. 27, §§ 417, 418...

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