COMMONWEALTH v. TRAINOR


374 Mass. 796 (1978)

374 N.E.2d 1216

COMMONWEALTH vs. NEIL TRAINOR (and companion cases).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

April 14, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William I. Cowin (Ronald H. Rappaport with him) for the defendants.

Timothy P. O'Neill, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., QUIRICO, BRAUCHER, KAPLAN, WILKINS, LIACOS, & ABRAMS, JJ.


WILKINS, J.

The individual defendant and the corporate defendant were found guilty in February, 1976, after a jury waived trial, on all counts of indictments charging them with having possession of obscene matter in June, 1975, with intent to disseminate it. While these appeals were progressing to this court,2 we decided three cases involving the obscenity statute which was enacted in June, 1974 (see St. 1974, c. 430), after this court...

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