 | New York (State) - Session laws - 1823 - 516 pages
...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 appear to...party shall be acquitted ; and the jury shall have the right t» determine the law and the fact. SEC. IX. The assent of two thirds of the members elected... | |
 | Parliamentary practice - 1826 - 228 pages
...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 appear to the...party shall be acquitted ; and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the fact. SEC. 9. The assent of two-thirds of the members elected... | |
 | Francis Smith Eastman - New York (State) - 1828 - 320 pages
...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 appear to the...party shall be acquitted ; and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the fact. SEC. ix. The assent of two-thirds of the members elected... | |
 | Montgomery Robert Bartlett - Education - 1828 - 426 pages
...indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury; and if it shall :ippear to the jury, that the matter charged as libellous, is...party shall be acquitted, and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the fact. Twa thirds of the Legislature, necessa ry to the passage... | |
 | Law - 1834 - 518 pages
...prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence; and if it shall appear to the jury, that the matter charged as libellous is...party shall be acquitted, and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the facts.' 240 Short Reviewt. [Jan. The venerable and fundamental... | |
 | New York (State) - Law - 1829 - 826 pages
.... r , . i •<- • j 11 ii proceedingi. given in evidence to the jury ; and 11 it shall appear to the jury that. the matter charged as libellous is true, and was published with good motives and for justifiable ends, the party is to be acquitted ; and the jury have the right to determine... | |
 | New York (State) - 1830 - 424 pages
...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 appear to the...party shall be acquitted ; and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the fact. SEC. IX. The assent of two thirds of the members elected... | |
 | New York (State) - 1831 - 392 pages
...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 appear to the...jury, that the matter charged as libellous is true, aJid was published with good motives, and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted ; and... | |
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In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the jury, that the matter charged as libellous is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable ends, the party... 
