New York Court of Appeals March 23, 1875 (Anonymous)

Grover, J.

The words charged are not actionable per se. To make them such it is not enough that the charge thereby imputed was one involving turpitude in a moral sense, but it must constitute an indictable offence, upon conviction of which punishment may be inflicted. (Young v. Miller, 3 Hill, 21; Crawford v. Wilson, 4 Barb., 504.