Commonwealth v. Swallow
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 21, March T., 1898, by-defendant, from sentence of Q. S. Dauphin Co., March Sess., 1897, No. 69, on verdict of guilty. Orlady, J., dissents. Indictment for libel.
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Appeal, No. 21, March T., 1898, by-defendant, from sentence of Q. S. Dauphin Co., March Sess., 1897, No. 69, on verdict of guilty. Orlady, J., dissents. Indictment for libel. Before Simonton, P. J. It appears from the record and the evidence that the defendant is the editor of the Pennsylvania Methodist, a paper which for a number of years has been published weekly in the city of Harrisburg, Pa., under the auspices of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In the month of February, 1897, the general assembly of the commonwealth was in session in that city, and…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Smith, J.,
The defendant has been convicted of a libel on the superintendent of public grounds and buildings, and the state officers who are by law commissioners of public grounds and buildings, in their official character as such. The alleged libel was contained in an article published in a newspaper of which the defendant was editor.
In defense, it is contended that this publication “ does not libel or charge any criminal act upon any of the individuals alleged to have been libeled; ” that the indictment “ does not charge any indictable offense,” and is also defective in the manner…
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