Honorable H. E. Nichols, Judge of the Superior Court of the Rome Circuit, issued a citation for contempt against W. T. Fields and Ralph McGill, as managing editor and editor, respectively, of the Atlanta Constitution. By demurrer and by answer the respondents contended that an order adjudging the respondents in contempt of court, under the facts set out in the proceeding, would amount to restraining liberty of speech and the press in violation of art. 1, sec. 1, par. 15 of the Constitution of this State, and would be in violation of the due-process clause and equal-protection clause of section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of section 1 of the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which provides that Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech or of the press. The demurrers to the citation were overruled and the respondents were held in contempt of court. Relying upon their demurrers and answers, the respondents assert that the assignments of error involve a construction of the Constitution of this State, and of the United States. Held:

City of Atlanta, 149 Ga. 114 (99 S. E. 374); Howell v. State, 153 Ga. 201 (111 S. E. 675); Norman v. State, 171 Ga. 527 (156 S. E. 203); Dennard v. State, 176 Ga. 361 (168 S. E. 310); Thompson v. City of Atlanta, 176 Ga. 489 (168 S. E. 312); Payne v. State, 180 Ga. 609 (180 S. E. 130); Campbell v. Atlanta Coach Co., 186 Ga. 77 (196 S. E. 769); Head v. Edgar Bros. Co., 187 Ga. 409 (200 S. E. 792); Western Union Telegraph Co. v. King, 188 Ga. 95 (2 S. E. 2d, 909); Gaston v. Keehn, 195 Ga. 559 (24 S. E. 2d, 675); Thompson v. State, 199 Ga. 250 (33 S. E. 2d, 903); Loomis v. State, 203 Ga. 394 (47 S. E. 2d, 58).