Bunton v. Worley

OPINION of the Court, by

Judge Logan.

This is an action of slander, for words charging the defendant,; with fdomj. The words were spoken in part before a justice of the peace, on the application for a. warrant to arrest the defendant on said charge. '

Upon the trial, Bunton, the defendant in that court, by his counsel, moved the court to exclude any evidence, which went to detail statements made to the justice in ré-lation.to the charge, at the time of the application for the warrant.

And also'moved for instructions to the jury, that ifthey: were of opinion from the evidence, that the words…