Wakao

This is an action in which defendants were accused, by information laid in Sacramento County, of the crime of libel, as follows: “That the said E. K. Wakao and M. Ishihashi on the-day of December, 1915, in the County of Sacramento, in the said State of California, and before the filing of this information, did then and there willfully, unlawfully and maliciously and with intent thereby to injury (injure 1) and defame one Risaburo Hattori and to impeach his honesty and integrity and virtue and reputation and to expose him, the said Risaburo Hattori, to public hatred and contempt and ridicule, did compose, print, and publish in a certain newspaper called ‘The Central California Times,’ printed and published in the County of Fresno, State of California, and circulated therein and which said newspaper was then and there circulated and published in the County of Sacramento, State of California, certain false, scandalous, malicious, defamatory and libelous words of, and concerning the said Bisaburo Hattori, in the Japanese language, as follows, to wit: [Then follows a photographic copy of the newspaper article and its alleged translation.] Contrary to the form, force and effect of the…