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420A Where person charged with unlawful publication of defamatory matter

On the trial of a person charged with the unlawful publication of defamatory matter—
S. 420A inserted by No. 9407 s. 2(e).
(a)the jury may give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter in issue, in like manner as in other cases; and
(b)the question whether any matter alleged to be defamatory is or is not capable of a defamatory meaning is a question of law.