Burnham v. State

Citations

• 37 Fla. 327

Syllabus

<p>An information under our statute (section 2419 Revised Statutes) prescribing a penalty against “whoever speaks of and concerning any woman, married or unmarried, falsely and maliciously, imputing to her a want of chastity,” should not only set out the words constituting the oral slander, but should also charge that they were uttered or spoken in .the presence of some one; and the better practice would be to set out the names, or some of them of the persons before whom they were uttered or spoken.</p>