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.
Contributors: Landis, Simon M.; Morgan, C. R.; Pennsylvania. Court of Oyer and Terminer (Philadelphia County); Pennsylvania. Court of Quarter Sessions (Philadelphia County); Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: The First Progressive Church of Philadelphia
Published: 1871
Place of publication: [Philadelphia]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 75
Subjects: Landis, Simon M. -- Trials, litigation, etc.; Secrets of generation.; Trials (Obscenity) -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.; Obscenity (Law) -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genres: Trials, litigation, etc.
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."