COMMONWEALTH v. BEACON DISTRIBUTORS, INC.


14 Mass. App. Ct. 570 (1982)

441 N.E.2d 541

COMMONWEALTH vs. BEACON DISTRIBUTORS, INC. (and thirteen companion cases).

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

October 29, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Traft, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Alice E. Richmond & Susan Hughes Banning for the defendants.

Present: HALE, C.J., ROSE, & GRANT, JJ.


GRANT, J.

In drafting indictments or complaints under G.L.c. 272, § 29 (as appearing in St. 1974, c. 430, § 9),1 it appears to have been the uniform practice to treat each act of unlawful dissemination as a separate offence which is punishable as such. See, e.g., Commonwealth v. 707 Main Corp., 371 Mass. 374, 375, 386 (1976)...

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