People v. . Sherlock
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from a judgment of the appellate division of the supreme court, first department, affirming a judgment of the court of special sessions of the city of New York convicting the defendant of the crime of libel.
1Opinion of the CourtCullen, J.
The appellant was indicted for having published in a newspaper called the Unionist a false and malicious libel on Charles M. Clark, then in the employ of one of the large daily papers in the city of New York. At the time of the offense there was a “ labor war ” between the organized or “ union ” printers , and the newspaper on which Clark worked. The material part of the alleged libel in substance charged Clark with having, when foreman of the Providence Journal, made fálse entries in the payroll of the paper, and appropriated the money represented by such entries. .The Unionist was published…
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