People v. Seltzer

The defendant, Thomas Seltzer, stands indicted by the grand jury of this county charged with a violation of section 1141 of the Penal Law in unlawfully possessing an indecent book, committed as follows: “ Said defendant, in the County of New York aforesaid, on the 22d day of June, 1923, and for a considerable time prior thereto, with intent to sell and show, unlawfully possessed a certain obscene, lewd, lascivious, indecent and disgusting book entitled ‘ Cassanova’s Homecoming.’ ”

The contents of the book itself are not set forth in the indictment, though for all purposes they may be…