Clay v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ op Error to the Circuit Court of Livingston County ; the Hon. N. J. Pillsbury, Judge, presiding. This was an indictment against Cassius M. Clay for a libel.
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Writ op Error to the Circuit Court of Livingston County ; the Hon. N. J. Pillsbury, Judge, presiding. This was an indictment against Cassius M. Clay for a libel. The indictment, omitting formal parts, was as follows : “ That Cassius M. Clay * * * unlawfully and maliciously contriving and intending to villify and defame one Amanda Masters and Etta Masters, and to bring them into public scandal and disgrace, and to injure and aggrieve them, the said Amanda Masters and Etta Masters, unlawfully, maliciously, and willfully did compose and publish, and cause and procure to be composed and…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Walker
Plaintiff in error was indicted and convicted of libel in the La Salle circuit court. He was fined $300 and costs, and it was ordered that he stand committed until the same should be paid. He brings the record to this court, and asks a reversal on several grounds.
It is first urged that the libel is not set out with sufficient certainty, and the indictment should for that reason have been quashed on the motion interposed for that purpose. The libel is introduced into the indictment by the words “ as follows.” This is sufficiently certain — as much so as had the language “in the words and…
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