Citation Codes Equivalent Citations citation codes Docket Number 10611 Attorney(S) Messrs. John Edwin Stansfield, George Bell Timmerman and Wm. M. Smoak, for appellants. Mr. Stansfield cites: Where alleged libelous words are doubtful it is for the jury: 93 S.C. 475; 76 S.C. 510. No violation of Sec. 698, Crim. Code: What is a libel: 93 S.C. 474; 76 S.C. 511; 63 S.C. 530. Newell Libel and Slander (1st Ed.) 32, 36, 42; 71 S.C. 116; 4 McC. 321; Dud. L. 310; 3 S.E. 321 (Ga;) 28 N.E. 692 (Ill.) Intent is not material: Newell, 301. Truth is only a mitigating circumstance. Sec 215, Code Proc. 1912. Complaints should not have been dismissed because no malice could be inferred from publications: 2 McC. 288; 3 Hill 88. Privileged communications: 99 S.C. 443; Newell 388-9; 3 Hill 85; 3 How. 287; 11 L.Ed. 601; 207 Fed. 222; 26 L.R.A. (N.S.) 1088; 12 Pick. (Mass.) 163; 17 R.C.L. Secs. 74, 76, 88; 12 Fed. 526; 22 Fed. 771. Publication of report of judicial proceeding is privileged unless there be express malice: 25 Cyc. 406; 17 R.C.L. 344; 51 S.E. 756 (Ga.;) 33 N.E. 921 (N.Y.;) 35 Ann. Cas. 33. Question of privilege was for the jury: 99 S.C. 433; 3 Hill 85. Libel was sufficiently alleged: 99 S.C. 432; 68 S.C. 201; 66 S.C. 17; 87 S.C. 257; Bryant Code Pleading, 190; 91 S.C. 424. Hendersons, for respondent. cite: Libel per se and per quod: 17 R.C.L. Sec. 4, p. 264; Sec. 54; Malice; Id Sec. 64, 65. Where words are not libelous per se there must be full allegations showing wherein they are libelous: 76 S.C. 511; 13 Enc. (Pl. Pr.) 32; 9 Rich. 382; 161 Ala. 292; 114 S.C. 48. Report of judicial proceeding is privileged: 17 R.C.L. Sec. 93; 3rd Lawson's Remedies, Sec. 1230, Starkie on Slander, 272; 25 Enc. Pl. Pr. 376. Where privilege appears from face of complaint express malice must be alleged: 13 Enc. Pl. Pr. 59; 104 Am. St. Rep. 130. Sunday work prohibited: Secs. 698, 699, Crim. Code 1912. Truth of words a complete defense: Newell on Defamation, p. 651, Sec. 68, 18 A. E. Enc. Law, (2nd Ed.) 1067; Art 1, Sec. 21, Const. 1895. Privilege in publication extends to witnesses: 80 Am. Dec. 740; 97 Am. St. Rep. 830; Newell, 499. Judges MR. JUSTICE WATTS. See more information ... Smart Summary Please sign up to generate summary. OLIVEROS v. HENDERSON (Two Cases).TERWILLIGER April 16, 1921. The opinion of the Court was delivered by MR. JUSTICE WATTS. For the reasons assigned by his Honor, Judge Rice, in circuit decree, it is the judgment of this Court that the judgment of the Circuit Court be affirmed.