Ridgely v. State

The appellants are the proprietors of a newspaper known as “The Maryland Republican,” published in Annapolis, and they were indicted in the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County for libelling Frank A. Bond, who was one of the judges of election for said county at the election for State and county officers held on the third of November, 1891.

The traversers demurred to the indictment, and their demurrer having been overruled, they pleaded the general issue, and went to trial before a jury. During the course of the trial they took twelve exceptions, — one to the refusal of the Court at the…