Shiell v. the Metropolis Co.

— Plaintiff in error sued defendant in error in the court below for libel. The declaration was in three counts. The first count' of the declaration was as follows:

“That on or about the 21st day of March, 1930, in the city of Jacksonville, Duval County, Florida, the defend ant falsely and maliciously spoke and published of the plaintiff the words following, that is to say:

‘A Jacksonville man and a Jacksonville woman will die in the electric chair if the instructions of Circuit Judge George Couper Gibbs are carried out. Judge Gibbs gave a jury late today instructions to find Florence Weinkle…