Legal Opinion
Evans Theatre Corporation v. Slaton
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided March 4, 1971No. 26249PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Mobley, Presiding Justice.
Lewis R. Slaton, District Attorney of
the Atlanta Judicial Circuit, and Hinson McAuliffe, Solicitor of the Criminal Court of Fulton County, brought a complaint in Ful ton Superior Court against Evans Theatre Corporation, operator of Loew’s Grand Theatre, a motion picture theatre in Atlanta, and Marion Smith and John Herbert, managers of the corporation, alleging that defendants have advertised in the local papers the showing of a film, "I Am Curious (Yellow),” which is obscene within the definition of obscene materials in Code Ann. § 26-2101 (Ga. L. 1968, pp. 1249,…
2Cases cited18 opinions
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3Cited by36 opinions
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