State v. Ward

CLEMENS, Judge.

Defendant, a clerk in an “Adult Book Store,” appeals from a conviction and $300 fine in a court-tried case for violating Section 563.280, RSMo 1969, V.A.M.S., which provides: “Every person who shall . . . offer for sale . . . any obscene . . . picture ... or other publication of indecent, immoral or scandalous character . . . shall, on conviction thereof, be fined . . .”

The State’s information charged “that Lafayette A. Ward in the City of St. Louis, on the 2nd day of March 1973 did knowingly possess certain obscene publications with the intent to sell and circulate the same…