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CORINTH PUBLICATIONS v. WESBERRY

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221 Ga. 704 (1966)

146 S.E.2d 764

CORINTH PUBLICATIONS, INC. v. WESBERRY et al.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided January 18, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Haas, Holland, Freeman, Levison & Gibert, Hugh W. Gibert, Stanley Fleishman, for appellant.

Arthur K. Bolton, Attorney General, Peyton S. Hawes, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

GRICE, Justice.

A proceeding declaring a book to be obscene brings about this appeal.

The litigation began when James P. Wesberry, Hubert L. Dyar and Marcus Calhoun, as members of the State Literature Commission, filed in the Superior Court of Muscogee County a petition seeking a declaration that a book entitled "Sin Whisper" is obscene. The petition recited that the Commission was created by Georgia Laws 1953, page 135, as amended by Georgia Laws 1958, page...

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