State v. . Aldridge
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDictment tried at Spring Term, 1880, of Craven Superior Court, before Gudger, J. The defendant was tried and convicted upon an indictment under the act of 1879, ch. 156, entitled “an act to make the slander of women indictable,” and appealed from the judgment pronounced.
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INDictment tried at Spring Term, 1880, of Craven Superior Court, before Gudger, J. The defendant was tried and convicted upon an indictment under the act of 1879, ch. 156, entitled “an act to make the slander of women indictable,” and appealed from the judgment pronounced. The indictment is as follows: The jurors, &c., present, that James Aldridge, late of the county of Craven, on the 1st day of May, A. D. 1879, with force and arms, at and in the county aforesaid, did unlawfully and wilfully attempt in a wanton and malicious manner to injure the reputation of one Holland Williams, by falsely…
1Opinion of the CourtAshe, J.
The act under which this indictment was preferred reads: “ That any person who may attempt in a wanton and malicious manner to destroy the reputation of an innocent woman by words written or spoken, which amounts to a charge of incontinency, shall be guilty of a crime, and on conviction thereof shall be fined or imprisoned at the discretion of the court.”
The object of the legislature in passing this act was to protect the character of innocent women, that is, chaste and virtuous women, against wanton and malicious attempts to destroy their reputation by charges of incontinency. It is for the…
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