Legal Opinion
Gable v. Jenkins
District Court, N.D. Georgia
Decided April 20, 1970No. Civ. A. 13001PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEWIS R. MORGAN, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiff George Gable is engaged in the business of distributing printed material consisting of books, magazines and periodicals, and defendant Chief of Police Herbert T. Jenkins, whose duty it is to enforce the penal laws of the State, has caused plaintiff to be arrested and a number of his books seized for violating Code 26-2101 prohibiting the distribution of obscene material. Jurisdiction is properly invoked.
Plaintiff alleges that the Georgia statute, 26-2101, under which he is being prosecuted, violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the United…
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