Richard F. Byrd, Sheriff of Holmes County, brought this action in libel for damages against Mrs. Hazel Brannon Smith, the owner and editor of the Durant News and the Lexington Advertiser, two weekly newspapers, on account of the publication in said newspapers of a news item concerning the plaintiff on July 8, 1954, and an editorial comment thereon in the issue of July 15, 1954.
The news item was as follows...
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