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WILLIAMSON v. STATE

38744.

249 Ga. 851 (1982)

295 S.E.2d 305

WILLIAMSON v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided September 23, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

McAllister & Roberts, J. Dunham McAllister, for appellant.

James L. Wiggins, District Attorney, James E. Turk, Assistant District Attorney, for appellee.

WELTNER, Justice.

Williamson appeals from the overruling of demurrers to indictments charging him with the offense of criminal defamation.1

Constrained by the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in Gooding v. Wilson, 405 U.S. 518 (92 S.C. 1103, 31 LE2d 408) (1974), we hold that the requisite element of Code Ann. § 26-2804 — a communication which "tends to provoke a breach...

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