Legal Opinion
Summerlin v. Sheriff of Huron County
District Court, N.D. Ohio
Decided June 5, 1972No. C72-12Published
1Opinion of the CourtWaliNski, J.
Robert Summerlin was convicted by a three-judge panel in the Huron County, Ohio, Common Pleas Court, this pursuant to a violation of R. C. 2905.34: the unlawful sale of an obscene, lewd or lascivious book, knowing said book to be obscene, lewd or lascivious. He was sentenced to serve not less than one nor more than seven years in the Ohio State Penitentiary.
The Court of Appeals of Huron County, in affirming the conviction, found the subject matter, a paperback book entitled “69 Potion,” to be “hard core pornography.” Thereafter, an appeal as of rigid was dismissed by the Ohio *235Supreme Court…
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