Johnson v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
July Term, 1887, No. 164, E. D., Error to the Quarter Sessions of McKean County to review a judgment on a verdict of guilty in an indictment for libel, May Sessions, 1887, No. 66. The indictment against Oscar Johnson and 0. Emery Durfee was as follows: The grand inquest of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, inquiring in and for the body of the county of McKean, upon their oaths and affirmations, respectively do present that O. Emery Durfee and Oscar Johnson aforesaid, at the…
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July Term, 1887, No. 164, E. D., Error to the Quarter Sessions of McKean County to review a judgment on a verdict of guilty in an indictment for libel, May Sessions, 1887, No. 66. The indictment against Oscar Johnson and 0. Emery Durfee was as follows: The grand inquest of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, inquiring in and for the body of the county of McKean, upon their oaths and affirmations, respectively do present that O. Emery Durfee and Oscar Johnson aforesaid, at the county and within the jurisdiction aforesaid, on the night of the 4th day of May, 1887, unlawfully, wickedly, and…
1Per curiam
We think the indictment in this case sufficiently formal to sustain the verdict, nor do we agree with the counsel for the defendants [plaintiffs in error] that the evidence was not sufficient to sustain the charge. The image, itself, as the learned judge who tried the case well said, was a libel, and that it was intended to represent the prosecutor seems to have been at once understood by his neighbors from the manner in which it was labeled.
The judgment of the Quarter Sessions is affirmed, and it is ordered that the record he remitted for the purpose of execution.
2Cited by1 opinion
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