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STATE v. SIMMONS

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272 S.C. 465 (1979)

252 S.E.2d 572

The STATE, Respondent, v. Donna Taylor SIMMONS, Roland Darryl Wickham, Joe Willis Hardy, Jimmy Roger Wells, and Larry Wilson, Appellants. The STATE, Respondent, v. Donald Lee KIRVEN, Jerry Allan Marlow, Alvis Gray Speight, and Roland Wickham, Appellants.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

February 23, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Glenn Zell, Atlanta, Ga., and Carlton B. Bagby, Columbia, for appellants.

Atty. Gen. Daniel R. McLeod, Senior Asst. Atty. Gen. John P. Wilson, and Asst. Atty. Gen. Brian P. Gibbes and Kay G. Crowe, Columbia, and Sol. Claude A. Taylor, Jr., Spartanburg, for respondent.

February 23, 1979.

LEWIS, Chief Justice:

This appeal involves separate prosecutions against each of nine appellants for exhibiting obscene materials in violation of the then existing South Carolina obscenity statute, Section 16-15-150 et seq., 1976 Code of Laws. Appellants were employees of various so-called "adult bookstores" in Spartanbug County and were arrested on charges of exhibiting obscene materials through certain films shown on coin operated...

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