Pledger v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Criminal Law. Libel.' Justification. Charge of Court. Evidence. Malice, Witness. Contempt. Constitutional Law. Before Jndge Clarke. City Court of Atlanta.
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Criminal Law. Libel.' Justification. Charge of Court. Evidence. Malice, Witness. Contempt. Constitutional Law. Before Jndge Clarke. City Court of Atlanta. September Term, 1885. To the report contained in the decision, it is only necessary to add, in explanation of the fifth division thereof, that G. W. Adair testified that the negotiations with reference to the house which Rucker desired to occupy as a tenant were carried on by his son and clerk, Forrest; that Forrest had stated to him that Rucker had made a purchase from, one Johnson, who had a lease on the house which had some five months…
1Opinion of the Court
Hall, Justice.
Pledger was found guilty of the offence of libel for writing and publishing in a newspaper printed in the city of Atlanta, called The Defiance, the following article of and concerning one George W. Adair, viz:
“ After the Honorable H. A. Rucker lost Ms position in the revenue service for no other reason than that he was a negro, he commenced the business of a confectioner, having purchased the business from a white man; and at the end of the month, when the rent was due, a philanthropist, Adair by name, who is a great friend of the negro, called upon him and informed him of his…
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