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PEACHTREE NEWS CO., INC. v. SLATON

25731, 25732.

226 Ga. 471 (1970)

175 S.E.2d 539

PEACHTREE NEWS COMPANY, INC. et al. v. SLATON, District Attorney, et al. BUCKHEAD BOOK MART et al. v. SLATON, District Attorney, et al.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided June 8, 1970.

Rehearing Denied June 25, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Haas, Holland, Freeman, Levison & Gibert, Hugh W. Gibert, Richard N. Hubert, for Peachtree News.

George C. Walsh, Robert Eugene Smith, for Buckhead Book Mart.

Lewis R. Slaton, District Attorney, Hinson McAuliffe, Solicitor, Joel M. Feldman, Carter Goode, Tony H. Hight, for appellees.

MOBLEY, Presiding Justice.

The District Attorney of the Atlanta Judicial Circuit and the Solicitor of the Criminal Court of Fulton County brought a petition in Fulton Superior Court, naming several distributors of books and magazines as respondents, asking that rule nisi issue requiring the distributors to show cause why described magazines, alleged to be obscene under the provisions of Ga. L. 1968, pp. 1249, 1302 (Code Ann. § 26-2101), should not be seized...

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