Legal Opinion
State v. Putnam
Oregon Supreme Court
Decided March 9, 1909PublishedCited by 15 opinions
From Jackson: Hiero K. Hanna, Judge. The defendant, George Putnam, was convicted of criminal libel and from the judgment and sentence which followed, he appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bean
The defendant is the owner and proprietor of a daily newspaper published at Medford, in Jackson County. *267In the issue of his paper of December 19, 1907, there appeared the following article, written and published by him:
“A proceeding calculated not only to bring into popular contempt, local administration of justice, and punishment of crime, but to force every man to take into his own hands the protection denied under legal process, has just been enacted in Jacksonville by the grand jury and Deputy District Attorney C. L. Reames. These officers sworn to enforce the law have practically…
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