Cuvillier v. State

Louis A. Cuvillier, the claimant, was a member of the Assembly of the State of New York in 1923. There was a session of the Assembly from January until the fourth of May. On April 9, 1923, claimant introduced in the Assembly a bill providing for a legislative investigation of the police department of the city of New York. On April twenty-second, on his way to the train during a recess of the Legislature, claimant sent a telegram to Magistrate Joseph E. Corrigan, of New York city, which contained an alleged criminal libel of one Enright, chief of police of the city of New York. On May ninth…