Commonwealth v. Maker

POPOVICH, Judge:

The appellants (Julie Renee Maker, Rose Marie Bailey, Shelley Ann Grumbling, Harley D. Clement, James Darrell Loughard, and Clyde Ronald Loughard) appeal the judgment of sentence (costs of $76.02 and a fine of $300.00 each) for violating 18 Pa. C.S.A. § 7329(a)’s prohibition against a “bottle club” offering “lewd, immoral, or improper” entertainment “for profit or pecuniary gain”. The appellants claim: 1) the evidence was insufficient to convict; 2) the statute violates the Equal Protection clause; 3) the statute violates the First Amendment’s right of assembly; and 4) the…