State v. Payne
West Virginia Supreme Court
Case Certified from Circuit Court, Mineral County. Prank J. Payne was indicted for publishing a criminal libel. His demurrer to the indictment was sustained and the ruling certified.
1Opinion of the Court
Lynch, Judge :
To an indictment charging the publishing of a criminal libel defendant demurred, and the court below, after sustaining the demurrer, certified its ruling here for our judgment thereon.
The indictment, after the usual formalities of caption and commencement, contains this statement of the offense charged: “That Prank J. Payne, in an article and writing published by him and under his authority and direction in ‘The Mountain Echo/ a weekly newspaper of general circulation in said Mineral County, West Virginia, published by the Echo Company, corporation, in the issue of said paper…
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