Marvin Miller, Covina Publishing, Inc., a Corporation Doing Business as Collector's Publications v. United States

TRASK, Circuit Judge:

Marvin Miller and Covina Publishing, Inc., a corporation controlled by Miller and doing business as Collector’s Publications, bring this appeal from their convictions at jury trial for having mailed obscene matter in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1461 and for having transported obscene matter in interstate commerce in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1462.

A grand jury indicted appellants on twenty-one counts of violating sections 1461 and 1462. The trial court granted a judgment of acquittal on one count. The jury returned verdicts of guilty on eight counts and not guilty on the…