Case ID: tex-ct-app_12/html/0552-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Willson, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

James Melton v. The State.
    Slander.—Information in the prosecution of a defendant for imputing to a female a want of chastity, which fails to set forth, at least substantially, the words constituting the imputation, is insufficient to sustain a conviction for slander’.
    Appeal from the County Court of Young. Tried below before the Hon. J. H. Glasgow, County Judge.
    The opinion states the case.
    
      Rector & Thompson, for the appellant.
    
      H. M. Holmes, for the State.
   Willson, J.

The defendant is charged by information with imputing to a female a want of chastity. The words constituting the alleged slander are not set out in the information. In the case of Lagrone v. State, decided at the present term of this court (ante, p. 426), we held that an information which failed to set forth, at least substantially, the words constituting the imputation, was fatally defective; and we so hold in this case.

The judgment is reversed and the cause dismissed.

Reversed and dismissed.