STATE v. GUINN


347 S.W.2d 44 (1961)

STATE of Tennessee v. Leonard T. GUINN.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

May 26, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lodge Evans, Dist. Atty. Gen., Elizabethton, for the State.

John R. Jones, Willard H. Garland and H. Dennis Erwin, Erwin, for defendant in error.


BURNETT, Justice.

An "Inquisitorial Indictment" was returned against the defendant in error, charging him with criminal libel. The trial court quashed the indictment because in his opinion the published language for which it was charged the defendant in error libeled the District Attorney General was not per se libelous. The State has appealed and assigned errors. Briefs have been filed by both sides, and after carefully...

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