State v. Greenville Publishing Co.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
OsimiNal actioN, tried at the November. Term, 1919, of Pitt, before Kerr, J., and a jury. The action was commenced before C. D. Rountree, a justice of the peace, with the issuance of a warrant against the defendants, charging them with libelling Joseph McLawhorn, sheriff of Pitt County. Upon the preliminary hearing the magistrate found a ease of probable cause against the defendants and they were bound over by him to the County Court of Pitt County.
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OsimiNal actioN, tried at the November. Term, 1919, of Pitt, before Kerr, J., and a jury. The action was commenced before C. D. Rountree, a justice of the peace, with the issuance of a warrant against the defendants, charging them with libelling Joseph McLawhorn, sheriff of Pitt County. Upon the preliminary hearing the magistrate found a ease of probable cause against the defendants and they were bound over by him to the County Court of Pitt County. When the ease was called for trial in the County Court, Hon. P. M. Wooten, the county judge, announced from the bench that he would not try the…
1Opinion of the CourtHoke, J.
On the hearing it was made to appear that in June, 1918, defendants had published an editorial comment as to the conduct of the prosecutor, Joseph McLawhorn, then sheriff of Pitt County, and a candidate for renomination at the approaching primaries, charging, in effect, that the prosecutor had been unfaithful and criminally negligent in the performance of his official duties in reference to enforcing the statutory provision applicable to deserters and slackers, under the Federal draft acts, and containing allegations that the recent killing of one of these deserters in the effort to arrest…
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- State v. Lytle.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1905
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- Riley v. StoneSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1917
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