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WESTON v. STATE

No. CR-75-49.

528 S.W.2d 412 (1975)

Joseph H. WESTON, Appellant, v. STATE of Arkansas, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

October 20, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cearley & Gitchel, Little Rock, for appellant.

Jim Guy Tucker, Atty. Gen. by Gary Isbell, Asst. Atty. Gen., Little Rock, for appellee.

LeROY AUTREY, Special Justice.

Joseph H. Weston, the editor and publisher of the Sharp Citizen, a weekly newspaper of Cave City, has appealed his conviction in the Clay County Circuit Court of the crime of criminal libel as defined in Section 41-2401 et. seq., Arkansas Statutes. The information under which Weston was convicted alleged that he had on November 30, 1973, published in the Sharp Citizen "a false, malicious and defamatory libel" which "tended to...

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