State v. Cossett

Defendant appeals from an order revoking his probation and sentence of one year in the county jail.

There were two indictments in defendant’s original trial, case no. 14909 and case no. 14913, both involving dissemination of obscene matter, which were consolidated for trial. The procedural steps which followed in these two companion cases are quite complicated and must be summarized here in order that the issues presented by this appeal be clearly understood.

Following the conviction in both cases on April 17, 1977, the judge merged all the counts of the indictment in case no. 14913 into Count…