REX VRS  PETER MBA Accused was charged with the publication of defamatory matter contrary to section 375 of the Criminal Code in that on the 31st of January, 1936, he published defamatory matter affecting D. E. Okereke knowing it to be false in the form of a letter handed by him to D. E.Okereke for communication to the Superintendent of Education, Onitsha, which contained the defamatory matter set forth-in the charge.