State v. Cox

REINHARD, Judge.

Defendant was convicted by the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis, sitting without a jury, of the offense of promoting pornography in the second degree, § 573.-030, RSMo 1978, and assessed a fine in the amount of $100. Defendant appeals. We affirm.

On November 29, 1979, Elishia Moore, a plainclothes police detective of the Vice Division of the Metropolitan Police Department of St. Louis, as part of an ongoing investigation into the operation of adult-type bookstores in the City of St. Louis, entered a business establishment, known as the California Book Store, located at…