Stutts v. State

Whitfield, J:

This writ of error was taken to a judgment of conviction in the Circuit Court for Calhoun county upon an indictment charging that R. B. Stutts in Calhoun county on December 7th, 1904, “did falsely and maliciously impute a want of chastity to one Eulalie Benton, an unmarried woman, by then and there in the presence of and in the hearing of one Asa Poston, falsely and maliciously saying of and concerning her, the said Eulalie Benton, that she, the said Eulalie Benton, was nothing more than a common prostitute,, and that she, the said Eulalie Benton, had given birth to a bastard…