Moran v. State

Appellant was indicted, tried, convicted and sentenced in the'circuit court of Lonoke County to pay a fine-of one hundred dollars and to serve thirty days in jail on an indictment charging him with criminal libel, in the following- language, omitting the formal parts:

“Unlawfully, willfully, maliciously, did defame by causing to be printed, and by writing, and caused to be published of and concerning Jack See, Arthur Eobinson and Joe Wilson, in words and figures as, follows: (Then follows the alleged libelous printed circular, consisting of fifty-seven interrogative and affirmative statements,…