Atlanta Journal v. Mayson
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action for damages. Before Judge Westmoreland. City court of Atlanta. March, term, 1893.
1Opinion of the Court
Simmons, Justice.
This was action for libel, the alleged .libelous matter consisting of publications in the defendant’s newspaper charging the plaintiff with the crime of forgery. The defendant admitted the publications and pleaded justification. There was a verdict for the plaintiff, of $1,000. The main question before us is, whether or not the trial court erred in charging, that “ the burden is on the defendant to sustain the plea of justification by the same degree of evidence that would be required to convict *641the plaintiff if he were charged with a crime; that is to say, beyond a…
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