PEOPLE v. MAZZONE

No. 50170.

74 Ill.2d 44 (1978)

383 N.E.2d 947

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, Appellee, v. FRANK E. MAZZONE et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed December 4, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. Robert Artoe, of Chicago, for appellants.

William J. Scott, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Edward Petka, State's Attorney, of Joliet (Donald B. Mackay and Melbourne A. Noel, Jr., Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago, and Steven Teplinsky, Assistant State's Attorney, of counsel), for the People.


Appellate court vacated; circuit court affirmed in part and vacated in part.

MR. JUSTICE KLUCZYNSKI delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendants, Frank E. Mazzone and Lockport Theatre Corporation, were found guilty of obscenity in violation of section 11-20 of the Criminal Code of 1961 (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1975, ch. 38, par. 11-20) after a jury trial in the circuit court of Will County. The trial court entered judgment and assessed a $500 fine against Mazzone...

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