State v. Triplett

This decision condemns not Hustler magazine or its publisher, who may well deserve it, but Joyce Triplett, a clerk in a convenience store who, in the course of her job, sold a Hustler magazine to an adult. Her only duty in connection with that magazine was to collect its purchase price. It is Miss Triplett and not the magazine, its publishers, its distributor, or her employer, who is forever branded as one who promotes pornography.

In order to commit the crime of promoting pornography in the second degree, the law requires that it be proven beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant sold the…