Moral defence of the pastor of the First Progressive Christian Church
By: by Damon Y. Kilgore, Esq. ; including eighteen reasons for a new trial with an argument in their support ; also, the charge, opinion and sentence of the court in the case of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania vs. Rev. Simon M. Landis, M.D., for publishing a book, entitled Secrets of generation ; phonographically reported by C.R. Morgan
Publisher: The Church
Published: 1871
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 75
Subjects: Trials (Obscenity); Obscenity (Law); Secrets of generation
Notes: Cover title.

"In the Court of Oyer and Terminer and Quarter Sessions of the Peace for city and county of Philadelphia, January sessions, 1870."--p. 54.

Landis was charged with obscenity for having published a sex education book, Secrets of generation, that was "lewd, filthy, and corrupt."

McCoy, R.E. Freedom, L34 (related)