Bugg v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

The offense is libel; punishment fixed at a fine of $1,000.

The information made by B. W. Smith, County Attorney, after the formal part, contains the following averments:

“***ttiat in said (county) of Live Oak, and State of Texas, on or about the 16th day of April, A. D., 1922, W. J. Bugg, did, then and there, without lawful authority, and with intent to injure the reputation of M. P. Dunn, H. E. Odem and Gilbert McGloin, who were then and there members of the Fourth Degree of the Knights of Columbus, a fraternal benefit association, organized as a corporation under…