Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. ARMAO
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided January 20, 1972No. Appeal, 584PublishedCited by 58 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Roberts,
We must here decide whether the Pennsylvania statute pertaining to criminal libel, Act of June 24, 1939, P. L. 872, §412, 18 P.S. §4412, 1 and the Act of April 11, 1901, P. L. 74, §1, 19 P.S. §801, 2 as modified by Article I, Section 7 of the Pennsylvania Constitution, 3 is of any further force or effect in light of a series of recent decisions by the United States Supreme Court concerning libel and the First Amendment. 4 Upon review we find that neither the statutes nor the last sentence of Article I, Section 7, comport with our basic federal constitutional…
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