Section 767.70 - Indictment for libel; statement of application to party libelled. - Michigan Statutes

THE CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE (EXCERPT)
Act 175 of 1927

767.70 Indictment for libel; statement of application to party libelled.

Sec. 70.

An indictment for libel need not set forth any extrinsic facts for the purpose of showing the application to the party libelled of the defamatory matter on which the indictment is founded, but it is sufficient to state generally that the same was published concerning him.

History: 1927, Act 175, Eff. Sept. 5, 1927 ;-- CL 1929, 17284 ;-- CL 1948, 767.70
Former Law: See section 18 of Act 77 of 1855, being CL 1857, § 6064; CL 1871, § 7934; How., § 9545; CL 1897, § 11930; and CL 1915, § 15757.