GREGORY, Justice.
Defendants were tried jointly and convicted of "deliberately defacing and defiling the flag of the United States by burning it." Code Ann. § 26-2803. The case is before us on a constitutional challenge to this code section.
On November 29, 1979 two officers from the City of Atlanta Police Department were dispatched to the federal courthouse on Forsyth Street to observe a demonstration by the Iranian Student Association and the Revolutionary...
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