Legal Opinion
United States Ex Rel. Doss v. Lindsley
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 7, 1945No. 20-1165PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KERNER, Circuit Judge.
Appellant was convicted of criminal libel and sentenced to serve a term of six months in the County Jail of Piatt County, Illinois. The indictment charged Doss with unlawfully and maliciously contriving and intending to vilify and defame Carl I. Glasgow, State’s Attorney of Piatt County, and to bring him into public scandal and disgrace by printing and publishing on April 24, 1941, in a certain publication called The Liberty Press, a certain false, scandalous, malicious, and defamatory libel. On appeal the judgment and sentence was affirmed, People v. Doss, 318 Ill.App.…
2Cases cited13 opinions
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3Cited by26 opinions
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