Davis v. State

HABPEB, Judge.

Appellant was prosecuted and convicted of slan<der, the information alleging that appellant did unlawfully orally, falsely, maliciously and wantonly impute to one Mrs. Jessie Davis a want of chastity, in that in the presence and hearing of W. H. Landrum, falsely, maliciously and wantonly say that Mrs. Jessie Davis was four months gone, meaning thereby that she was pregnant with child and had been for a period of four months, and by the language so used to the said W. H. Landrum that Mrs. Davis was unchaste and was not virtuous prior to her marriage to appellant’s son, and that…