Case Name: ROBERTS v. STATE OF GEORGIA, by WEBB, Solicitor-General
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1960-10-06
Citations: 216 Ga. 405
Docket Number: 21006
Parties: ROBERTS v. STATE OF GEORGIA, by WEBB, Solicitor-General.
Judges: All the Justices concur.
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 216
Pages: 405–406

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

Opinion:
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.