McNary v. Carlton

I respectfully dissent. I would reverse outright. As I attempted to point out in my dissent in Kansas City v. O’Connor, 510 S.W.2d 689, 698 (Mo. banc 1974), we have a strong freedom of speech clause in our Missouri Constitution, Art. I, Sec. 8. It provides: “That no law shall be passed impairing the freedom of speech, no matter by what means communicated; that every person shall be free to say, write or publish, or otherwise communicate whatever he will on' any subject, being responsible for all abuses of that liberty . . .”

As I said in the O’Connor case, supra, “The spirit of this clause of…