Weston v. State

LeRoy Autrey, Special Justice.

Joseph H. Weston, the editor and publisher of the Sharp Citizen, a weekly newspaper of Cave City, has appealed his conviction in the Clay County Circuit Court of the crime of criminal libel as defined in Section 41-2401 et. seq., Arkansas Statutes. The information under which Weston was convicted alleged that he had on November 30, 1973, published in the Sharp Citizen “a false, malicious and defamatory libel” which “tended to impeach the honesty, integrity, veracity and reputation of . . . Liddell Jones,” the Sheriff of Clay County. The information charged and…