State v. . Lyon
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT for libel tried at Fall Term, 1883, of Guilford Superior Court, before MacRae, J. The alleged libellous matter is set out iti the bill of indictment according to its tenor, the substance of which is as follows; A man named Dean attempted to commit rape upon a little girl; a warrant was issued for his arrest, and he was carried before Joseph A. Davis (a justice of the peace and the prosecutor); ’Squire Davis, after his style of dispensing justice, converts the ease…
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INDICTMENT for libel tried at Fall Term, 1883, of Guilford Superior Court, before MacRae, J. The alleged libellous matter is set out iti the bill of indictment according to its tenor, the substance of which is as follows; A man named Dean attempted to commit rape upon a little girl; a warrant was issued for his arrest, and he was carried before Joseph A. Davis (a justice of the peace and the prosecutor); ’Squire Davis, after his style of dispensing justice, converts the ease into an assault and battery and discharges the offender of all decency and law, upon payment of costs, which was thirty…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
The defendants, of whom one is editor and the other publisher of a weekly newspaper called “The Kernersville News,” are charged with publishing therein the defamatory matter set out in the indictment, in which malversation and cor ruption in the administration of bis office as a justice of the peace are imputed to one Joseph A. Davis, while acting as such. The matter contained in the article is clearly libellous, and tends to expose the officer thus charged to public hatred and contempt.
1. At the trial four jurors were peremptorily challenged, without saying on behalf of which defendant, when…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- The People of N.C. Ex Rel . Norfleet v. . Staton, Jr.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1875
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