Legal Opinion
134 Baker Street, Inc. v. State
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided November 27, 1984No. 68346PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Pope, Judge.
Appellant 134 Baker Street, Inc. brings this appeal from its conviction of distributing obscene material. Held:
1. Appellant’s first enumeration assigns error to the trial court’s charge on “community standards.” OCGA § 16-12-80 (b) provides in part: “Material is obscene if: (1) To the average person, applying contemporary community standards, taken as a whole, it predominantly appeals to the prurient interest. . . After instructing the jury as to this statute, the court charged “that the phrase ‘community standards’ as used in this law refers to what is accepted or approved of by…
2Cases cited19 opinions
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3Cited by16 opinions
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