State v. . Grigg
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Slander — “ Innocent Woman ” — Evidence. This is a CRIMINAL action for slander, tried at October Term, 1889, of the Cleveland Superior Court, Connor, J., presiding. There was evidence tending to prove the utterance of the slanderous words and that they were false.
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Slander — “ Innocent Woman ” — Evidence. This is a CRIMINAL action for slander, tried at October Term, 1889, of the Cleveland Superior Court, Connor, J., presiding. There was evidence tending to prove the utterance of the slanderous words and that they were false. Mrs. Mattie C. Cline, the prosecutrix, testified that she had been married twelve years, and that no person other than her husband had ever had carnal intercourse with her; that her first child was born six months after her marriage, and that her husband was the father of it; that she had carnal intercourse with her husband before…
1Opinion of the Court
Clare, J.:
Slander was formerly cognizable only on the civil side of the docket bjr an action for damages. The law under which the defendant is indicted is one of many recent statutes making indictable acts which were previously punishable civilly only. These statutes, it is generally understood, have been passed in consequence of the decision in Dellinger v. Tweed, 66 N. C., 206, in which it was held (by a divided Court, PearsoN, C. J., and Rodman, J., dissenting), that the homestead and personal property exemptions were valid against torts.
In the absence of the civil remedy for private…
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