Hatcher v. State

PREHDERGAST, Presiding Judge.

—Appellant was convicted of slander and -the' loivest punishment assessed against her.

The complaint ancl information charged, in the language of the statute, that she falsely and maliciously and wantonly imputed a want of chastity to a married woman, naming her, in the presence and hearing of certain persons, naming them, in that she said that the husband of the slandered woman was not the father of the child recently born to her but that its father was one of the Ashley boys. This language, without question, imputed a want of chastity to the slandered woman and…