State v. Huff

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, C. J.:

In an information filed in the district court of Brown county on September 8, 1914, A. G. Huff was charged with having willfully, unlawfully and maliciously published, on September 3, 1914, a libel concerning William I. Stuart. Huff was the owner, editor and publisher of The Hamlin Reporter, a weekly newspaper published at Hamlin and of general circulation in Brown county. William I. Stuart was the judge of the twenty-second judicial district, which includes Brown county. In -the election of 1914 Judge Stuart was a candidate for…