People v. Calkins

Defendant was convicted of the crime of criminal libel of W. V. Buckner by the publication on December" 23, 1934, of an article appearing in the Corcoran News, a newspaper published in Corcoran, Kings County, of which he was the publisher and editor. Besides appealing from the judgment and order denying his motion for new trial, defendant has attempted to appeal from an “order denying'a motion to set aside the information”, an “order denying the plea of former jeopardy, and the plea of former acquittal”, and “the order . . . permitting the association of counsel for the prosecution as special…