Trabue v. Mays

Judge Ewing

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

Henry Mays brought an action of slander, in the Adair Circuit Court, against C. H. Trabue, charging the defendant with having said of him, that “he stole a horse,” in three counts; to which the defendant plead not guilty, and justification.

After the evidence was concluded, [the following instructions were given by the Court to the jury, at the instance of the plaintiff’s counsel: — ■

“If they believe the defendant spoke the slanderous words charged in the. three first counts of the plaintiff’s declaration, they should ’find damages for the…