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STATE v. SHORT

No. 63132.

368 So.2d 1078 (1979)

STATE of Louisiana, Appellee, v. William A. SHORT, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

March 5, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack Peebles, New Orleans, for appellant.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., John M. Mamoulides, Dist. Atty., P. Michael Cullen, Abbott J. Reeves, Asst. Dist. Attys., for appellee.

TATE, Justice.*

The defendant was convicted by a six-person jury of three counts of obscenity in violation of La.R.S. 14:106. He was sentenced to one year in the parish prison, suspended on condition that he serve 30 days in jail and pay a fine.

The chief factual defense was that the magazines purchased by the vice officers, for which the defendant is prosecuted, were not obscene because they did not violate contemporary community...

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