Owens v. State

DAVIDSON, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of slander, his punishment being assessed at a fine of $500.

The information, omitting formal parts, charges that appellant did “unlawfully, orally, maliciously and wantonly impute to a female in this State, towit, Ethel Ford, a want of chastity, the said Ethel Ford being then and there an unmarried -female, in this, towit: the said Grover Owens did then and there in the presence and hearing of Joe Lawhorn, Lester Lawhorn, Lester Mays and divers other parties say that he had had sexual intercourse with her, the said Ethel Ford, against the peace and…