Johnson v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of Dallas. Tried below before Hon. E. G. Bower, County Judge. This is a conviction for libel of O. L. Parry, and is one of the series of Kansas City Sunday Sun cases.
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Appeal from the County Court of Dallas. Tried below before Hon. E. G. Bower, County Judge. This is a conviction for libel of O. L. Parry, and is one of the series of Kansas City Sunday Sun cases. The penalty assessed was a fine of $100. Briefly stated, the libel alleged in the information charged, that for about a year previous to its publication the libelee, Parry, lived in fornication with one Essie Watkins, a notorious prostitute, both being unmarried, at a certain house in the city of Dallas; that during the said time he purchased a large quantity of liquors from the said Essie, for which…
1Opinion of the Court
SIMKINS, Judge.
Appellant was convicted in the County Court of Dallas County for libel, and sentenced to a fine of $100, from which judgment he appealed to this court.
The appellant published a defamatory article about one Owen L. Parry, a resident citizen of Dallas, in a newspaper called the 11 Kansas City Sunday Sun,” which was circulated in Dallas County and City, in which the said Parry was charged with criminal intimacy, in Dallas City, with one Essie Watkins, a woman of dissolute character, and with malicious mischief in breaking a quantity of furniture and bnc-a-brac, and with…
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