TITLE 18

CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS

CHAPTER 48

LIBEL

18-4805.  Sufficiency of publication. To sustain a charge of publishing a libel, it is not needful that the words or things complained of should have been read or seen by another. It is enough that the accused knowingly parted with the immediate custody of the libel under circumstances which exposed it to be read or seen by any other person than himself.

History:

[18-4805, added 1972, ch. 336, sec. 1, p. 944.]