18-4801 — LIBEL DEFINED


                                  TITLE  18
                            CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS
                                  CHAPTER 48
                                    LIBEL
    18-4801.  LIBEL DEFINED. A libel is a malicious defamation, expressed
either by writing, printing, or by signs or pictures, or the like, tending to
blacken the memory of one who is dead, or to impeach the honesty, integrity,
virtue or reputation, or publish the natural or alleged defects, of one who is
alive, and thereby to expose him to public hatred, contempt or ridicule.