Drake v. State

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dixon, J.

The plaintiff in error was indicted, tried and convicted in the Union County Quarter Sessions, for publishing the following newspaper article :

“an alleged editor cowi-iided by an indignant woman.

“ There was much excitement yesterday over the cowhiding of .one of the publishers of the Herald by a lady whose home is at Elizabeth and Jefferson avenues.

“ Her family, like many others in this city, have been outraged by a villainous statement in that contemptible sheet. The lady called at the office and demanded a retraction, which was obsequiously…