Solicitor General of Fulton County, Geor- gia, Hinson McAuliffe, from prosecuting or threatening to prosecute under the Georgia obscenity statute, GaCode § 16-12-80 (1980), any person who exhibited the movie "Caligula," the rights to which Penthouse owns.' Penthouse also sought a declaration that "

S.1111, 2614, 37 LEd2r1 419 (1978). Thus, states such as Georgia are free to enact statutes making the exhibition of obscene matter criminal. See GaCode § 16-12-80 (1980). Our second premise is that states may en- force their valid criminal statutes within constitutional limits. They may also charge