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2019 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 21. Crimes and Punishments
§21-774. Defenses in criminal libel action.
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21 OK Stat § 21-774 (2019)
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In all criminal prosecutions or indictments for libel, the truth thereof may be given in evidence to the jury, and if it be made to appear by the defendant that the matter charged as libelous was true, and in addition thereto was published with good motives, and for justifiable ends, or was a privileged communication, the defendant shall be acquitted.
R.L.1910, § 2383.
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