People v. Schenkman

Because the issues of fact and law in each of the above four cases, tried separately, are the same, this decision will apply to each of these cases.

Each of the defendants is charged with a violation of section 1141 of the Penal Law, in that one of them had in his possession with intent to sell, and four of them did sell certain books, which will be more fully referred to later, and which books are alleged to be obscene.

In the Schenkman case, Detective Grünewald testified that on December 30, 1958 he entered a bookstore at 254 West 42nd Street, New York, which was managed by the defendant;…