State v. . Davis
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This was an INDICTMENT under section 1113 of The Code, tried before Graves, Judge, at the Fall Term, 1884, of Ci-iowan Superior Court. The indictment charged the defendant with slandering one Florence Paxton, an innocent woman, by saying he had had sexual intercourse with her.
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This was an INDICTMENT under section 1113 of The Code, tried before Graves, Judge, at the Fall Term, 1884, of Ci-iowan Superior Court. The indictment charged the defendant with slandering one Florence Paxton, an innocent woman, by saying he had had sexual intercourse with her. On the trial, the said Floience Paxton was examined as a witness for the State, and testified that “she had never had intercourse with the defendant Davis, or any other man, and that her life had been pure.” The defendant Davis, was then introduced as a witness in his own behalf, and swore that he had on several…
1Opinion of the Court
Asíle, J.
(after stating the facts). The statute under which the defendant was indicted, reads: “If any person shall attempt, in a wanton and malicious manner, to destroy the reputation of •an innocent woman, by words written or spoken, which amount to a charge of ineontinency, every person so offending shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and fined or imprisoned in the discretion of the court.” The Code, sec. 1113.
In State v. McDaniel, 84 N. C., 803, the construction given to the statute is, that the “offence defined consists, not in the slander of a woman by falsely charging her with…
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