The People v. . Sherman
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal by defendant Charles G. Sherman, from a judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the Third Department of 2 December, 1885, affirming a judgment of the Court of Sessions of Rensselaer County of 21 June, 1885, convicting the defendant of criminal libel. The facts appear in the opinion.
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Appeal by defendant Charles G. Sherman, from a judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the Third Department of 2 December, 1885, affirming a judgment of the Court of Sessions of Rensselaer County of 21 June, 1885, convicting the defendant of criminal libel. The facts appear in the opinion. The indictment was as follows: The grand jury of the County of Rensselaer, by this indictment, accuse Charles G. Sherman, William J. Tyner, Joseph McLaughlin, George H. McNamara, Sidney W. Giles, Cornelius J. Mackey, and Timothy J. Corcoran of the crime of libel, committed as follows : The said…
1Opinion of the CourtMiller, J.
The defendants were convicted of participation in the publication of a libel against one Sheary. The alleged libelous article was published in a newspaper printed by a corporation, with which all the defendants were connected in some capacity. Upon the trial, proof was given to establish that the libelous article in question was written by one Lowery; that it was published in the first edition of the newspaper in question; that upon its perusal immediately after the printing of the newspaper, a question was made as to the truth of the charges contained in the article published, which related…
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