# United States v. Smith (Ind.) (1909)

The First Amendment Encyclopedia, Middle Tennessee State University, 2009-01-01

- Address: https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/united-states-v-smith/
- Kind: reference
- Last checked: 2026-09-26
- Archived copy: none yet

## Cited by

- [United States: President Theodore Roosevelt seeks criminal libel indictments against the New York World and the Indianapolis News over Panama Canal reporting](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/1909-us-panama-canal-libel-prosecutions)
- [Claim 966: The Indianapolis News had published stories questioning the finances of the Panama Canal purchase, and Roosevelt considered the stories libelous and sought to prosecute the paper.](https://thewaronnews.com/claims/966)
- [Claim 967: Vice President Charles Fairbanks held a financial interest in the Indianapolis News that most of the paper's readers did not know about.](https://thewaronnews.com/claims/967)
- [Claim 968: Judge Albert Barnes Anderson ruled that any offense would have occurred in Indiana rather than the nation's capital, so the case could only be tried in Indiana.](https://thewaronnews.com/claims/968)

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