RW PAGE CORPORATION v. Kilgore

Weltner, Justice.

A mother and her two children were found brutally murdered in Columbus, Georgia. The coroner of Muscogee County impanelled jurors and made inquest into the deaths. The inquest was open to the public, and the testimony of all witnesses was recorded and transcribed at public expense. The verdict returned by the coroner’s jury was: “Ann J., Erika and Ryan Curry were murdered with a bush ax, however, with the evidence presented in this case, we are unable to determine the principals or accessories to the murders.”

R. W. Page Corporation, a publisher of newspapers, requested a copy…