HAMITER, Justice.
Mrs. Douglas Webster was charged in a bill of information with having committed criminal defamation against Knowles M. Tucker, the District Attorney in and for Iberia Parish, in violation of LRS 14:47. Convicted, and sentenced to pay a fine of $1,000 or (in default of the payment of the fine) to serve sixty days in the parish jail, she has appealed and relies on ten bills of exceptions to obtain a reversal.
The basis of the charge is a letter...
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