State v. Luv Pharmacy, Inc.

Indictments were brought against the defendants for violation of the State obscenity statute, RSA 650:2. The defendants allegedly sold obscene material in that they sold the July 1976 issue of Penthouse magazine. On January 7, 1977, they filed pleas in abatement challenging the court’s jurisdiction. Keller, C.J., made an interlocutory order on the pleas on April 19, 1977, and a final order denying the pleas on May 23, 1977. The defendants seasonably excepted to this denial. The court reserved and transferred all questions of law raised by the foregoing exceptions and all other exceptions…