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PEOPLE v. SPEER

No. 61378.

52 Ill. App.3d 203 (1977)

367 N.E.2d 372

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. JAMES SPEER et al., Defendants-Appellants.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District (4th Division).

Opinion filed August 25, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul C. Ross, of Chicago (John F. Martoccio, of counsel), for appellants.

Bernard Carey, State's Attorney, of Chicago (Laurence J. Bolon and Mary Ellen Dienes, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for the People.

Affirmed in part and reversed in part.

Mr. JUSTICE ROMITI delivered the opinion of the court:

The six defendants, James Speer, Thomas Yates, Morton Weiss, Milton Glass, David Mendenhall and Frank Orlando, were charged by nine complaints with obscenity in that they sold obscene magazines with knowledge of the nature or content thereof. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1973, ch. 38, par. 11-20.) In separate bench trials each...

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