Proctor v. State

*473The opinion of the court was delivered by

Lippincott, J.

The defendant was indicted for libel by the grand jury of Hudson county and the indictment was handed down to the Quarter Sessions of that county for trial.

A certiorari has been allowed and the indictment removed into this court, and on a motion to quash, the legal sufficiency of the indictment is now questioned.

The indictment charges that the defendant, on the 29th day of October, 1892, “unlawfully and maliciously contriving and intending to vilify and defame Emmet Smith and to ■bring him into public scandal and disgrace, and him to…