State v. Boogher

The defendant was indic'tedin the St. Louis court of criminal correction for a libel. He was tried and convicted, and a judgment was rendered against him December 22nd, 1879, from which he appealed to the court of appeals, where the judgment was affirmed, and from that judgment he has appealed to this court. Prior to the revision of the statutes in 1879, libel was' a common law offense and only punishable as such. It was first defined as a statutory mime by sections 1591 and 1592, and the punishment prescribed by section 1644 of the Revised Statutes of 1879. These sections took effect from…