Paris Adult Theatre I v. Slaton

Petitioners are two Atlanta, Georgia, movie theaters and their owners and managers, operating in the *51style of “adult” theaters. On December 28, 1970, respondents, the local state district attorney and the solicitor for the local state trial court, filed civil complaints in that court alleging that petitioners were exhibiting to the public for paid admission two allegedly obscene films, contrary to Georgia Code Ann. § 26-2101.1 The two films in question, “Magic Mirror” and “It All Comes Out in the End,” depict sexual conduct char*52acterized by the Georgia Supreme Court as “hard core pornography”…