PEACHTREE NEWS CO., INC. v. Slaton

Mobley, Presiding Justice.

The District Attorney of the Atlanta Judicial Circuit and the Solicitor of the Criminal Court of Fulton County brought a petition in Fulton Superior Court, naming several distributors of books and magazines as respondents, asking that rule nisi issue requiring the distributors to show cause why described magazines, alleged to be obscene under the provisions of Ga. L. 1968, pp. 1249, 1302 (Code Ann. § 26-2101), should not be seized by the prosecuting officers, or their agents, “to be used as evidence by the District Attorney in presenting to the Fulton County Grand…