Woodville v. Pizatti

Citations

• 119 Miss. 85
• 80 So. 491

Syllabus

<p>1. Libel and Slandeb. Words actionable. Imputing crime. '</p> <p>All words charging a person with the commission of a crime are not actionable per se, but only such as charge him with the commission of an act which, if true, would subject him to punishment, for a crime involving moral turpitude, or would make him liable to a punishment infamous in character, or to one which, if not necessarily infamous, would bring disgrace upon him.</p> <p>2. Libel and Slander. Words imputing larceny.</p> <p>A statement that there had been an inventory taken of everything in the house from which plaintiff had moved, that all the “stuff” on the list was not there, but that plaintiff had taken a part of it away, did not necessarily imply that the taking by plaintiff of a part of the “stuff” from the house was with any criminal intent whatever.</p>