Kilgore v. R. W. Page Corp.

Bell, Justice.

In Kilgore v. R. W. Page Corp., 259 Ga. 556 (385 SE2d 406) (1989), we remanded this case to the trial court for it to determine whether an inquest by Kilgore, the Coroner of Muscogee County, must be open to the public under either our Open Meetings Act, OCGA §§ 50-14-1 to 50-14-6, or our Open Records Act, OCGA §§ 50-18-70 to 50-18-75. On remand the appellee newspaper publisher also sought access under the First Amendment to the U. S. Constitution.

The trial court held that the Open Meetings Act and the First Amendment required that the inquest be open. Kilgore now appeals. We…