Avirett v. State

The appellant was indicted by the grand jury of Alleghany County for libel. There are five counts in the indictment. To every count a demurrer was filed. The demurrers were overruled and thereupon three pleas in abatement were pleaded. To the second and third the State demurred. The first was traversed and issue was *514joined upon the traverse. The Court below sustained the demurrer of the State, and found against the traverser upon the issue raised by the traverse of the first plea in abatement. The appellant then, under sec. 7, Art. 75, of the Code, entered a plea of not guilty, without…