Alcorn v. Hooker

— This was an action of slander for calling the plaintiff below a w--e. The words are alleged to have been spoken in 1842. Pleas, general issue, and a justification. The latter alleges that the plaintiff, while sole and unmarried, on the 1st of January, 1834, had carnal connection with one William Hooker. Replication, that the plaintiff, before, and at the time mentioned in the plea, was betrothed in marriage to the said Hooker; that after-wards, on the 6th of June, 1834, she was lawfully married to him; that she lived with him a virtuous life until the 1st of August, 1836,when he died; and…