State ex rel. Taubman v. Huston
South Dakota Supreme Court
Appeal from circuit court, Minnehaha county; Hon J. W. Jones, Judge. Habeas corpus, on relation of Thomas W. Taubman, against R. J. Huston, sheriff. From an order denying the writ, relator appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtFullER, J.
All the facts set forth in the sheriff’s return to a writ of habeas corpus being admitted by a demurrer thereto, the only question presented by this appeal from an order of the circuit court denying the petitioner’s application for a discharge form custody is whether the editor and proprietor of a newspaper, who prints a libel therein, with the willful and malicious intent to injure another by the publication of such defamatory article, is subject to a criminal prosecution in a county of this state other than that in which his printing office is located, but into which he has circulated…
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