Supreme Court of North Carolina February 5, 1882 (State v. . Townsend)

Ruffin, J.

We fully concur in the opinion expressed by His Honor, that the matter contained in the card and copied into the indictment, is libellous in its nature.

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Its tendency to degrade the prosecutor and render him odious, is patent; and therein it comes-fully up to the requirements laid down by the authors when defining the offence of -libel.