State v. Norton
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Exceptions by Defendant. This was an indictment for libel found in the Superior Court, for Cumberland County, and to which the defendant filed a demurrer. The presiding justice overruled the demurrer and the defendant excepted.
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Exceptions by Defendant. This was an indictment for libel found in the Superior Court, for Cumberland County, and to which the defendant filed a demurrer. The presiding justice overruled the demurrer and the defendant excepted. The material allegations in the first count of the indictment are as follows: — “Against what man is Deputy Sheriff Charles A. Plummer (meaning the said Charles A. Plummer) now plotting by the employment of a needy man who shall act as ' spotter ’ that some one who has incurred the liquor deputy’s displeasure (meaning the said Charles A. Plummer) may be punished?…
1Opinion of the CourtEmery, J.
The indictment charges that the respondent maliciously published by printing in a daily newspaper, in Portland, the following language concerning Charles A. Plummer then a deputy sheriff, specially charged with the enforcement of the *293liquor law in Portland, to wit: — “Against what man is Deputy-Sheriff Charles A. Plummer now plotting by the employment of a needy man who shall act as spotter, that some one who has incurred the liquor deputy’s displeasure may be punished ? Who will be the next young man to lay himself liable to State prison for a term of years by taking a false oath by…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Adams v. LawsonSupreme Court of Virginia · 1867
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- Morris v. SailerMissouri Court of Appeals · 1911
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