State v. Keenan

1 The indictment was based upon the publication of the following written article, which the defendant admits he wrote, and which he admits was published as charged: “There has not been a meeting of the teachers in this county at which this man has presided that the rules of common decency have not been outraged. As a specimen of his education, incident to his schooling, when connected with the Sentinel, ye gods, hear his expressions, ‘High coekolorum,’ ‘monkeying,’ etc., etc. Every teacher knows that these are specimens of his expressions in the presence of delicate and polite ladies, and he…