People v. Strauch

Mr. Presiding Justice Dibell

delivered the opinion of the court.

In and after June, 1907, Andrew A. Strauch, plaintiff in error, was the editor of a newspaper published in Carroll county, and he wrote and published in the issue of said newspaper for June 26, 1907, an article concerning Franklin J. Stransky, the state’s attorney of said county. He published another like article on another date. On November 20, 1907, the grand jury of said county returned an indictment against said plaintiff in error, charging him with a criminal libel against said state’s attorney in the writing and publishing…