Kleck v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

Conviction is for libel, punishment having been assessed at a fine of $350.00.

In the early dawn of a July morning in 1922 there was found posted in various places in the city of Fredericksburg in Gillespie County, written in longhand, the following notice:

“LOOK OUT! LOOKOUT!

There is a brown fellow here in town the people call him the secondhand lawyer. His grandfather was a regular horse thief and his father was and is a hog and cattle thief. Now that secondhand lawyer is stealing and robbing the people by law. Therefore look out! Look out! for that hypocrite quick and he will…