Case ID: ga_216/html/0405-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Mobley, Justice.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

21006.
    ROBERTS v. STATE OF GEORGIA, by WEBB, Solicitor-General.
    Argued September 15, 1960
    Decided October 6, 1960
    Rehearing denied October 18, 1960.
   Mobley, Justice.

This case is controlled by the decision rendered in Atlanta Newspapers, Inc. v. State of Ga., ante. The plaintiff in error here is the reporter and agent of Atlanta Newspapers, Inc., who wrote the newspaper article which appeared in the Atlanta Journal of June 2, 1959, which was one of the articles upon which the contempt citation was issued in Atlanta Newspapers, Inc. v. State of Ga., ante.

Judgment reversed.

All the Justices concur.

B. P. Gambrell, W. Glen Harlan, John E. Dougherty, Edward W. Killorin, for plaintiff in error.

Paul Webb, Solicitor-General, J. Walter LeCraw, contra.