State v. Mason
Oregon Supreme Court
ApPEAL^from Multnomah: M. G. Munly, Judge. 0. P. Mason and Ben P. Watson were convicted of criminal libel, and appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Chief Justice Bean.
1. The defendants were indicted, tried, and convicted of the crime of libel for publishing in a newspaper called the “Sunday Mercury” a libelous article in which the name of the person alluded to therein, who, it is claimed, is the prosecuting witness, was not mentioned. For the purposes of this appeal it is unnecessary to set out the article so published, or its substance, and therefore for this and other obvious reasons it is omitted. At the trial, witnessed were called by the state who testified that on reading the article they understood, from their…
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