People v. Bloss

Defendants, having been charged ih three separate actions on single count informations with violation, of MCLA 750.343a; MSA 28.575(1), were convicted upon non-jury trials. Each charge included pandering of the allegedly obscene publications.

In a lengthy opinion by Judge J. H. Gillis, the Court of Appeals affirmed the convictions, promulgating a new obscenity test:

"Given that the published material is obscene within the meaning of a state statute, not void for vagueness, the publisher of the material loses any claim to protection under the First and Fourteenth Amendments if his primary intent…