TITLE 6

ACTIONS IN PARTICULAR CASES

CHAPTER 7

LIBEL AND SLANDER

6-713.  Privileged publication in newspaper defined. A privileged publication in a newspaper which shall not be considered as libelous is one made:

(1)  In the proper discharge of an official duty.

(2)  In any publication of or any statement made in any legislative or judicial proceeding.

(3)  In a communication, without malice, to a person interested therein, by one who is also interested, or by one who stands in such relation to the person interested as to afford a reasonable ground for supposing the motive for the communication innocent, or who is requested by the person interested to give the information.

(4)  By a fair and true report, without malice, of a judicial, legislative or other public official proceeding, or of anything said in the course thereof, or of a charge or complaint made by any person to a public official, upon which a warrant shall have been issued or an arrest made.

History:

[6-713, added 1963, ch. 158, sec. 8, p. 459.]