State v. Wilcox

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Porter, J.:

Herman C. Ericsson, Cory Black and E. C. Wilcox were jointly charged in one information with criminal libel. On the trial Wilcox was acquitted. Ericsson and Black were found guilty, and appeal.

The information in substance charged that the three defendants, together with Charlotte Thomann, H. C. Medlock and Leta Foster, conspiring and confederating together, and aiding, assisting and abetting each other, willfully and maliciously intending to villify and defame one P. B. Gillett, procured to be made public and circulated certain false and…