Rochester v. Anderson

OPINION of the Court, by

Judge Boyle.

— -This was an action of trespass assault and battery — the plea „u;itVi On the trial, the plaintiff in the court below (who is appellee here) proved, that on the day of committing the assault and battery, the defendant, as he was g°ing to t^!e place where it was committed, declared he intended “ flogging the plaintiff because he had circulated slanderous reports of him.” The defendant then offered to prove that the plaintiff had, prior to thai day, circulated reports of the defendant which were slanderous. To this evidence the plaintiff objected, t^ere…