State v. Takeuchi

Citations

• 80 Wash. 556
• 141 P. 1145
• 1914 Wash. LEXIS 1349

Syllabus

<p>Libel and Slander—Criminal Responsibility—Information— Translation of Publication. An indictment or information for criminal libel published in a foreign language must set out the defamatory words verbatim and follow them with a proper translation; but it is not essential that the words shall be identical in translations made by different persons, but is sufficient if there is no difference in the ideas conveyed.</p> <p>Same—Offenses—Words Libelous Per Se. A published statement that the prosecuting witness visited the defendant’s printing office and threatened to kill him, that he had been unduly intimate with defendant’s wife, and had maintained improper relations with the wife of a man whose name was not disclosed, is libelous per se.</p> <p>Same—Evidence—Injury. In a prosecution for the publication in the Japanese language of an article libelous per se, where the prosecuting witness testified that his business credit was injured by reason of the loss of Japanese custom, evidence on the part of defendant showing such injury was occasioned by loss of credit with American dealers is inadmissible, when it was not shown that such dealers could have read the article in the Japanese language.</p>