COMMONWEALTH v. MASCOLO


7 Mass. App. Ct. 275 (1979)

386 N.E.2d 1311

COMMONWEALTH vs. ANTHONY MASCOLO & another.

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

March 23, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth H. Tatarian for the defendants.

Timothy P. O'Neill, Assistant District Attorney (John A. Mendlesohn, Special Assistant District Attorney, with him) for the Commonwealth.

Present: KEVILLE, ROSE, & GRANT, JJ.


KEVILLE, J.

The individual and corporate defendants were convicted at a jury trial of violating G.L.c. 272, §§ 29 and 31, for the knowing dissemination of an allegedly obscene film entitled "Autobiography of a Flea," and have appealed under G.L.c. 278, §§ 33A-33G. We reverse because of the failure of the trial judge to give certain instructions to the jury.

The defendants claim that the trial judge erred (1) in denying their motions to...

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