State v. Mayberry
Supreme Court of Kansas
Appeal from Osage District Court. Peosecution for libel. At the October Term, 1883, James Mayberry and another were convicted, and sentenced to pay a fine of $25 each, and the costs of the suit. They appeal. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
VALENTINE, J.:
This was a criminal prosecution for libel. The defendants, James Mayberry and June B. Mayberry, were *442charged witb the offense of libeling John E. Rastall, the editor of the Osage County Chronicle, and were convicted, and sentenced to pay a fine of $25 each, and the costs of the suit; and from this conviction and sentence they now appeal to this court. The alleged libel was an article published in the Osage County Democrat, a newspaper published in the city of Bur-lingame, Osage county, Kansas, of which newspaper the defendants were the…
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