People v. Havill

An indictment for libel "was returned against plaintiff in error by the grand jury of Wabash county, at the April term, 1908, of the Circuit Court. It contained hut one count and charged that plaintiff in error was the publisher of a certain newspaper in the city of Mt. Carmel in said county, known as “ Havill’s Every’Morning;” that he wrote and caused to be published therein a certain false, scandalous and defamatory libel in the form of a letter purported to have been written by him to Hon. Enoch E. Newlin, the presiding judge of said court, concerning the acts of George P. Ramsey in his…