Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Evan
Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Wyoming County
Decided August 28, 1973No. 5Published
1Opinion of the Court
GARDNER, P. J.,
— Defendants in the above-captioned case, Stephen Evan and John Krasner, were indicted by the Grand Jury of the Wyoming County Branch of this court for an asserted violation of the obscenity statute of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: Act of July 31,1968, P. L. 892, (no. 269), sec. 1, 18 PS §4524(a)1
*724Defendants entered pleas of not guilty to the indictment and, on May 11, 1973, elected to be tried by this court without a jury, which election was determined, after colloquy with defendants, to be a knowing and intelligent waiver of the right to trial by jury.
Trial commenced…
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