Lagrone v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of Milam. Tried below before the Hon. W. J. King, County Judge. The opinion discloses the nature of the case. The punishment imposed was a fine of §100.
1Opinion of the CourtWillson, J.
This prosecution is by information for a violation of article 645 of the Penal Code. The information charges that the defendant did “unlawfully, wilfully, maliciously, wantonly and falsely, orally impute to Sarah Lagrone, an unmarried female, in this State, a want of chastity, and in the manner and form aforesaid the said Hampton Lagrone did then and there slander the said Sarah Lagrone.” Among other objections made to this indictment is the one that it is not sufficiently certain, in this, that it does not set out the words constituting the oral slander.
The offense is charged in this…
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