Kennedy v. Dear
Supreme Court of Alabama
Error to the Circuit court of Wilcox. Case, for words spoken. Bradley Dear complained of Jonathan Kennedy, that, whereas the said plaintiff was a good, true, honest, just and faithful citizen, and as such, had always behaved and conducted, and until the committing, &c., was always reputed, esteemed and accepted as a person of good name, fame and credit, and had never been guilty, or suspected to have been guilty of perjury or any other such crime.
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Error to the Circuit court of Wilcox. Case, for words spoken. Bradley Dear complained of Jonathan Kennedy, that, whereas the said plaintiff was a good, true, honest, just and faithful citizen, and as such, had always behaved and conducted, and until the committing, &c., was always reputed, esteemed and accepted as a person of good name, fame and credit, and had never been guilty, or suspected to have been guilty of perjury or any other such crime. By means of which, before the committing of the grievance by defendant, as hereinafter mentioned, he had deservedly obtained the good opinion and…
1Opinion of the CourtGoldthwaite, J.
Bradley Dear instituted this action of slander in the Circuit court of Wilcox, and in his declaration, charged Jonathan Kennedy with having uttered of him, the words, “ You committed perjury,” with a colloquium, staling them to have been spoken in reference to a cause, wherein the State of Alabama was plaintiff, and the said Kennedy was defendant, on a charge of assault and battery ; which *95cause had been then lately tried, before one Miller, a justice of the peace. The defendant demurred to the declaration, and the demurrer being overruled by the court, he pleaded not guilty, and the statute…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Bullock v. WilsonSupreme Court of Alabama · 1837
3Cited by5 opinions
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- Watson v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1879
- Bradley v. GibsonSupreme Court of Alabama · 1846
- Blackman v. DowlingSupreme Court of Alabama · 1876
- Murphy v. PipkinSupreme Court of Alabama · 1914