State v. Loog

Pee Curiam.

This writ of error brings up for review the conviction of Boland H. Loog, Sidney L. Henry and James J. Digney, who were tried in the Monmouth County Court of Quarter Sessions upon an indictment for conspiracy to defame one Max Silverstein, a medical doctor in Asbury Park, New Jersey, who, at the time of these occurrences, was a councilman in that municipality. Henry and Digney were also members of the governing body and Loog was the municipal clerk.

The indictment charged these defendants with having conspired to deprive Silverstein of his good name and character and to subject him,…