Legal Opinion
People v. Gould
Illinois Supreme Court
Decided January 21, 1975No. 42652, 42662 consPublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Ward
The defendants, Charles Gould, Vincent Geraci, John Geraci, Charles Kimmel, Bernard Kosova, Chiem Blinder, Henry Green and Bill G. Maier, were convicted of the offense of obscenity in the circuit court of Cook County. They appealed to this court under our former Rule 603 (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1969, ch. 110A, par. 603), and as they raised identical questions we consolidated their appeals for argument and opinion.
The defendants were charged in separate complaints with violating the provisions of the obscenity statute (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1969, ch. 38, par. 11 — 20) by selling obscene magazines. The…
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