GEORGE ROSE SMITH, Justice.
This action for slander was brought by the appellee, Virginia Dove, who asserts that the appellant, George Edward Thiel, falsely accused her of adultery. The jury awarded the plaintiff $14 as compensatory damages and $1,400 as punitive damages. The appellant questions the sufficiency of the evidence and the correctness of the court's instructions to the jury.
Thiel, who was the municipal judge at Paragould, was standing on the sidewalk...
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