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- Title: Gooding v. Wilson
- Author : Supreme Court of the United States
- Release Date : January 23, 1972
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 66 KB
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Ann. ? 26-6303, which provides: "Any person who shall, without provocation, use to or of another, and in his presence . . . opprobrious words or abusive language, tending to cause a breach of the peace . . . shall be guilty of a misdemeanor." Appellee appealed the conviction to the Supreme Court of Georgia on the ground, among others, that the statute violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments because vague and overbroad. The Georgia Supreme Court rejected that contention and sustained the conviction. Wilson v. State, 223 Ga. 531, 156 S. E. 2d 446 (1967). Appellee then sought federal habeas corpus relief in the District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. The District Court found that, because appellee had failed to exhaust his available state remedies as to the other grounds he relied upon in attacking his conviction, only the contention that ? 26-6303 was facially unconstitutional was ripe for decision. 303 F.Supp. 952 (1969). On the merits
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