State v. Matheis

Section 3868 of the Revised Statutes provides: “Every person who shall falsely and maliciously charge or accuse any female of % * * whoredom, by falsely speaking of and concerning such female, in the. presence and hearing of any other person or persons, any false and slanderous words which shall impute to her any such offense * * * shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.”

Under this statute an information was filed against the defendant, which stated that he did falsely and maliciously charge a married woman ( naming her) with *295whoredom, by then and there in the presence and hearing of other…