Hartsock v. Reddick

Blartsoak sued Reddick for a libel, in charging him in writing with obtaining property by false pretenses. Among the pleas filed by the defendant are the general issue, and a special plea alleging that the supposed libel was an affidavit, made by the defendant before a justice of the peace, for the purpose of procuring a State warrant against the plaintiff, on a charge of having obtained the property, named in the affidavit, by false pretenses. Eeplication to this special plea de injuria, &e., and joinder. Verdict and judgment for the defendant.

The Court charged the jury—“If the paper in…