Leighton v. People

The plaintiffs in error, here called defendants, were informed against and tried for criminal libel. From a verdict of guilty and judgment of conviction they prosecute error.

The charge is, that the defendants did “unlawfully, maliciously and feloniously make, print and publish a certain false, scandalous, malicious and defamatory libel expressed by pictures and photographs of and concerning one Julius Wulfsohn, which said libel is of the tenor, purport and effect as follows: A picture or photograph of the said Julius Wulfsohn in a compromising and indecent position with a nude woman, tending…