Williams v. Gunnels
Supreme Court of Georgia
Slander. Verdict. Justification. Practice in the Superior Court. Before judge PoiTLE. Madison Superior-Court. September Term, 1880. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Speer, Justice.
Plaintiff in error, Williams, brought a suit against the defendants for slander. The words charged in the declaration as having been spoken by defendants imputed to plaintiff that he had been guilty of the offense of bestiality.
To this declaration defendants filed, as appears by the record, three pleas: ist. The general issue or plea of not guilty of speaking the words alleged to have been spoken. 2nd. Plea of justification — that is, if they did speak the words, they were true. 3rd. That said words were not spoken by them maliciously, nor slanderously, but because the…
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