People ex rel. Carvalho v. Warden of City Prison
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by The People of the State of New York from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 24th day of June, 1909, sustaining three separate .writs of habeas corpus issued on behalf of the respective relators.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
An article was published in the blew York American in its issue of December 17, 1908, which constituted a criminal libel, and it was so held by this court on an appeal by the publishing company from a conviction therefor. (People v. Star Co., 135 App. Div. 517.) The Star Company, 'which published the newspaper, is a domestic corporation, and the relator Carvalho was its president, and the relator Merrill its treasurer, and the relator Clark its secretary,' and their names appeared on each issue of the paper as such officers pursuant to the requirements' of the statute. (Laws of…
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