Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court July 8, 1955 (Commonwealth v. American News Co., Inc.)

Spalding, J.

The defendant was tried on an indictment charging that it “did unlawfully import, buy, procure, receive and have in its possession for the purpose of distribution, sale, exhibition and circulation, to persons under the age of eighteen years, certain books, pamphlets, printed papers, description and other things, obscene, indecent and

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impure manifestly tending to corrupt the