 | United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1952
...State since : "Every citizen may freely speak, write and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right; and no law...press. In all criminal prosecutions or indictments 250 JACKSON, J., dissenting. for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury; and if it... | |
 | John Chauncey Pease, John Milton Niles - Connecticut - 1819 - 389 pages
...law shall ever be passed to curtail or restrain the liberty of speech or of the press. § 7. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence, and the jury shall have the right to determine the 'aw and the facts, under the direction of the court.... | |
 | Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter, William Leete Stone - Constitutional conventions - 1821 - 703 pages
...compensation. VIII. Erery citizen may freely speak, write and publish his sentiments, on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right ; and no law...abridge, the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence, to the jury ; and if it... | |
 | New York (State). Constitutional Convention, Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter, William Leete Stone - Constitutional conventions - 1821 - 703 pages
...law shall ever be passed to curtail, or restrain the liberty of speech, or of the press ; and in all prosecutions, or indictments, for libels, the truth may be given in evidence, if it be to appear, thai the matter charged as libellous, was published with good ul tnr justifiable... | |
 | New York (State) - Session laws - 1823
...SEC. VIII. Every citizen may freely speak, write, and publish his sentiments, on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right; and no law shall be passed, to restrain, or abridge the liberly of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the... | |
 | Parliamentary practice - 1826 - 211 pages
...compensation. SEC. 8. Every citizen may freely speak, write and publish his sentiments, on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right ; and no law...abridge the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury ; and if it... | |
 | Parliamentary practice - 1826 - 211 pages
...speak, write and publish his sentiments, on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that light; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury; and if it shall... | |
 | Thomas Starkie - Libel and slander - 1826 - 616 pages
...Court, as in other cases — The Constitutions of Connecticut and Mississippi, provide that in .'.II prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence, and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the facts, under the direction of the Court.... | |
 | James Kent - 1826-1830 - 1827
...mentioned, and is not quite so latitudinary in its indulgence as some of them. It declares, that " in all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth...evidence to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the jury, that the matter charged as •ibellous, is true, and was published with good motives, and for... | |
 | Montgomery Robert Bartlett - Education - 1828
...Press. SEC. 8. Every citizen may freely speak, write, and publish his sentiments, on all subjects, bemg responsible for the abuse of that right; and no law...abridge, the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury; and if it shall... | |
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Every citizen may freely speak, write, and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. 
