Lancaster, Ticer and Trevathan v. State

On September 27, 1944, eight citizens of Stone county filed an affidavit with the regular judge of the Stone circuit court alleging they had reasonable grounds to believe that defendants had committed criminal contempt against the court by writing, printing and circulating a certain circular in the form of a political announcement of Sgt. Lonnie Ackerman for representative of Stone county. A copy of the circular was attached and made an exhibit to the affidavit and contains the following sentence: “As time goes on we intend to thoroughly discuss Little Jackie Williamson’s so-called Democratic…