GATEWAY BOOKS v. STATE

36786, 36787, 36788.

247 Ga. 16 (1981)

276 S.E.2d 1

GATEWAY BOOKS, INC. et al. v. THE STATE. FIRST AMENDMENT ENTERPRISES, INC. et al. v. THE STATE (two cases).

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided January 16, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Glenn Zell, for appellants.

Hinson McAuliffe, Solicitor, Leonard Rhodes, Assistant Solicitor, Lewis R. Slaton, District Attorney, for appellee.


JORDAN, Chief Justice.

The State of Georgia filed individual complaints against five business groups, each operating an adult book store with back-room booths for the presentation of adult mini-movies. Each complaint alleged that the particular business group had "knowingly . . . maintained [its] premises and the furniture, furnishings, fixtures and equipment located therein and the ground itself for the purpose of lewdness, assignation, sodomy, solicitation of sodomy...

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