State v. Nichols

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dunbar, J.

The appellant was convicted of the crime of libel, and from the judgment of conviction appeal is taken to this court. The indictment, omitting the formal part and commencing with the recital of the libelous matter charged as being published, is as follows :

“ Seattle, Wash., April 20, 1894.

“I first became acquainted with Rey. T. B. Ford in 1872 at the St. Louis Conference of the M. E. Ch., where I was appointed to Pine Bluff, Ark., a new charge organized by Ford. The male members were mostly ‘pothouse politicians’ of the lowest type most of…