State v. Brown

On motion to discharge defendants for failure to prosecute.

On the 6th day of April, 1907, the defendants, Brown, Long and Segal, were jointly indicted by the grand jury for criminal libel. Without setting out in full the indictment, it charges in substance that these defendants did on the 30th day of October, 1906, unlawfully and maliciously write, print and publish a certain false and malicious libel of and concerning one George A. Gohen, the clerk of the board of deputy state supervisors and inspectors of elections in and for Hamilton county (commonly called the board of elections) and…