State v. Richardson

SMITH, Presiding Judge.

Defendant appeals from his conviction, in a court tried case, of a violation of Sec. 563.280, RSMo 1969, V.A.M.S., selling obscene matter. He was fined $300.

Defendant does not here raise the question of whether the publication is obscene and has abandoned a double jeopardy claim as unsupported by the record. A police officer entered a book store on Olive St. in the city of St. Louis. He approached defendant and stated: “Well, I’d like to get a magazine, but they are all sealed up and I want to get something good that shows, you know, that really shows everything I want…