The King v. Gibson

*311Decision of

McCully, J.

The defendant demurs to the indictment for libel:

1. Because the letters are not set forth in the indictment.

The indictment is not based on the letters, but upon what is written and published about the letters, and the charge that certain language cited therefrom, by the Commissioner of Immigration, etc., is treason to the state.

It is not requisite, in my opinion, that the letters be set forth.

2. Because the alleged libellous words are not libellous in law.

Taken with what is set forth in the libel, the words: “This is treason to the state by a so-called Minister of State”…