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BOWLES v. JONES

No. 84-8477.

758 F.2d 1479 (1985)

Michael Clark BOWLES, Janet L. Gould, Joshua Ralph Gould, Sandra M. Plunkett, Joseph J. Young, Jeffrey Alan Rooney, and Barbara Maureen Fitzgerald, Petitioners-Appellants, v. Sanford S. JONES, Clerk of the State Court of Fulton County and Leroy Stynchombe, Sheriff, Fulton County, Georgia, Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

April 25, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J.M. Raffauf, Decatur, Ga., for petitioners-appellants.

E. Duane Cooper, Asst. Sol. Gen., Atlanta, Ga., for respondents-appellees.

Before KRAVITCH and JOHNSON, Circuit Judges, and TUTTLE, Senior Circuit Judge.

PER CURIAM:

Seven appellants appeal from the district court's denial of their petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The appellants had been found guilty by a jury in the state court of Fulton County of burning the official flag of the United States in violation of Ga.Code Ann. § 26-2803. This statute, entitled "Misuse of the National Flag" states:

A person who deliberately mutilates, defaces or defiles the flag of the United States or the State of Georgia...

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