He was a plaintiff and defendant in several trials for civil or criminal libel.
Norton was prosecuted for criminal libel but the jury could not agree on a verdict.
Later in 1964 the Supreme Court applied the same rule to criminal libel.
Whitney was convicted of criminal libel and sentenced to prison for a month.
In 2002, he was unsuccessfully prosecuted from criminal libel by the government.
Garrison was brought to trial for criminal libel, fined, and imprisoned.
The law made internet content subject to existing laws on expression, such as criminal libel.
Then in an appropriate case the public authority may be able to secure the institution of a prosecution for criminal libel.
The purpose of criminal libel was to prevent loss of confidence in Government.
The charge was criminal libel, which arose from a single paragraph published in Justice on 21 April 1894.