Commonwealth v. American News Co., Inc.

The defendant was tried on an indictment charging that it “did unlawfully import, buy, procure, receive and have in its possession for the purpose of distribution, sale, exhibition and circulation, to persons under the age of eighteen years, certain books, pamphlets, printed papers, description and other things, obscene, indecent and impure manifestly tending to corrupt the morals of youth. ” In a motion for particulars the defendant asked the Commonwealth, among other things, to state “The facts on which . . . [it] relies in support of its allegation in said indictment of distribution, sale,…