Case ID: ga_110/html/0289-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Fish, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Daniel v. Mayor and Council of Athens.
    Submitted December 4, 1899.
    Decided January 24, 1900.
    Petition for certiorari. Before Judge Bussell. Clarke superior court. October term, 1899.
    
      Strickland & Green, for plaintiff in error.
    
      F. C. Shackelford, contra.
   Fish, J.

The use, in the presence of a man, of an obscene word in an ordinary tone, without anger, and under circumstances not calculated to offend the hearer or cause a breach of the peace, does not constitute a violation of a municipal ordinance prohibiting disorderly conduct “calculated to disturb the peace of the citizen.”

Judgment reversed.

All the Justices concurring.