CITY OF DULUTH v. SARETTE

No. 48920.

283 N.W.2d 533 (1979)

CITY OF DULUTH, Respondent, v. John William SARETTE, James Leroy Pichotta, and Robert Bernard Fox, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

August 31, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Houge & Mosher and Benjamin S. Houge, Minneapolis, for appellants.

William P. Dinan, City Atty., and Timothy O. Lee, Asst. City Atty., Duluth, for respondent.

Heard before ROGOSHESKE, PETERSON, KELLY, and YETKA, JJ., and considered and decided by the court en banc.


ROGOSHESKE, Justice.

Defendants were charged with six separate violations of Duluth City Code, § 34-12, which makes it unlawful for any person "* * * knowingly to exhibit, sell, print, offer to sell, give away, circulate, publish * * * any obscene book, magazine, * * * motion picture film, * * * or other article which is obscene."1 After summary trials to the county court, they were found...

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