Offutt v. Earlywine

The defendant in error brought his action of slander against the plaintiff in error in the Rush Circuit Court. The declaration alleges that the defendant below charged the plaintiff with stealing a horse. The defendant pleaded the general issue, and a special plea of justification, averring that on, &c., at, &c., in the state of Kentucky the said Earlywine did feloniously steal, take, and ride away one sorrel horse, the property of Edward Linville. Issue on the first plea, and the general replication de injuria, &c. to the second. The cause was tried by a jury. Verdict and judgment for the…