Legal Opinion
Barbone v. Superior Court of Pima County
Court of Appeals of Arizona
Decided December 19, 1969No. 2 CA-CIV 782PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HOWARD, Judge.
The petitioners, defendants in criminal proceedings presently pending in Pima county superior court, have asked this court to issue a writ of prohibition, directed to the respondent court, to halt the respective criminal prosecutions.
The petitioners were charged with violations of our obscenity statute, A.R.S. § 13-532, as amended, and subsequently filed motions to quash challenging the constitutionality of the statute. The motions were denied and these extra-ordinary writ proceedings were commenced, an appropriate vehicle for testing the constitutionality issue. Loftus v.…
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