State v. Dowd
Supreme Court of Kansas
Appeal from Wabaunsee District Court. On March 16, 1887, the county attorney of. Wabaunsee county filed in the district court an information which contained the following allegations: “ I, J. B. Barnes, the undersigned, county attorney of said county, in the name, by the authority and on behalf of the state of Kansas, come now here and give the court to understand and be informed that, on the 27th day of January, 1887, in said county of Wabaunsee and state of Kansas, one…
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Appeal from Wabaunsee District Court. On March 16, 1887, the county attorney of. Wabaunsee county filed in the district court an information which contained the following allegations: “ I, J. B. Barnes, the undersigned, county attorney of said county, in the name, by the authority and on behalf of the state of Kansas, come now here and give the court to understand and be informed that, on the 27th day of January, 1887, in said county of Wabaunsee and state of Kansas, one Douglas V. Dowd, being the editor and publisher of a weekly newspaper known as The Eskridge Home Weekly, and which said…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Johnston, J.:
The main question raised by this appeal is the sufficiency of the information under which the defendant was prosecuted and convicted. He urges that it is indefinite, ambiguous, and fatally defective in failing to state the manner of publishing the alleged libel. It is expressly alleged that the defendant published the libel, but it is not explicitly stated by what means it was done. The prosecution states in the information that “Douglas V. Dowd, being the editor and publisher of a weekly newspaper known as The BskridgeHome Weekly, and…
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