Legal Opinion
State v. Briwa
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided November 3, 1941No. 36241PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HIGGINS, Justice.
George Briwa, James H. Morrison, Allen Dunnington and R. M. Singletary were charged in an indictment filed on March 14, 1941, with criminal libel of W. Prescott Foster on March 8, 1941, “by making, writing, publishing and causing to be published, a certain false, scandalous and malicious libel of and concerning the said W. Prescott Foster,” which libel was alleged to have appeared in a newspaper publication designated as “The Farmers’ Friend,” the “official organ of the Louisiana Farmers’ Protective Union, Incorporated.”
The defendants filed a plea to the territorial…
2Cases cited9 opinions
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- State v. HoganSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1924
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