People v. Colberg
Supreme Court of Puerto Rico
Appeal from the District Court of Mayagiiez in an Action for Slander. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Wolf
The defendant-appellant was found guilty of slander and sentenced to three months in jail. The information contained two counts, but the judgment is general and there is no indication that the defendant was acquitted on either count.
The first error of which- the appellant complains is the overruling of a motion to make the information more specific. A little farther on in the opinion we shall set out the said information verbatim. It charges that the words were spoken in a certain definite place and the idea of the appellant was that the information should express what kind of meeting or act…
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- Thompson v. Lewiston Daily Sun Publishing Co.Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1898
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