Grantham v. Wilkes

The appellees are the owners and publishers of a newspaper known as the Daily Herald, and are sued herein by the appellant for libel on a declaration alleging that they “published in the said newspaper owned by them as aforesaid, to-wit, the Daily Herald, with the circulation aforesaid, willfully, wantonly, maliciously, and falsely, the following publication of and concerning the plaintiff, B. F. Grantham, to-wit, Ghat the said Jeff Lacy was convicted entirely upon the testimony of one B. F. Grantham, which said testimony was unreliable, untrustworthy, and indicated very clearly that…