Legal Opinion
Robbins v. Treadway
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Decided October 31, 1829PublishedCited by 5 opinions
Case.* Error to the Jessamine Circuit; Wm, L. Kelly, Judge Pleading. Libel. Judge.
1Opinion of the Court
Judge Robertsoh
delivered the opinion of the Court.
This was an action on the case, for a libel alleged to have been published by the defendants against the plaintiff, as a circuit judge.
We shall deem it necessary (o consider only two questions; they will comprehend all others.
1st. Did the court err in suffering the defendants to withdraw pleas which they had filed, and to file others?
2d., Was any of the testimony, admitted for the defendants, illegal and inadmissible?
At the July term, 1826, the defendants filed two pleas, not guilty and justification.
At the October term succeeding, the plea of…
2Cited by5 opinions
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