State v. Lund

*241The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.:

O. C. Lund was convicted of criminal libel, and appeals. The information alleged that he had written a letter imputing unchastity to a wife and given it. to her son to give to her husband, adding “thereby procuring said letter and communication to be delivered to the said- [wife] and read by her.” He contends that the only publication of the libel charged was one made to the wife, and that the state failed to prove the offense as charged because, although there was evidence that she in fact saw the defamatory communication, which was shown to…