 | William Winterbotham - History - 1795 - 514 pages
...officers, or men in a public capacity, or where the matter publifiied is proper for public information, fh? truth thereof may be given in evidence. And, in all indictments for libels, the jury fliall have a right to determine the law and the fafts, under the direction of the court, as in other... | |
 | Kentucky - Constitutional law - 1799 - 606 pages
...inveftigating the official conduct of officers or men in a public capacity, or where the? matter publimed is proper for public information, the truth thereof...evidence. And in all indictments for libels, the jury fhall have a right to determine the law and the facis under the direction of the court, as in other... | |
 | Booksellers and bookselling - 1800 - 306 pages
...inveftigating the official conduct of officers, or men in a public capacity, or where the matter publi(hed is proper for public information, the truth thereof...evidence. And in all indictments for libels, the jury (hall have a right to determine the law and the facts, under the direction of the court, as in other... | |
 | Constitutions - 1804 - 372 pages
...that liberty. In prosecutions for publications, investigating the proceedings of officers, or where the matter published is proper for public information,...evidence : And in all indictments for libels, the jury may determine the fact and the law, as in other cases. SEcT. 6. The people shall be secure in their... | |
 | James Wilson, Bird Wilson - Law - 1804 - 456 pages
...footing, consonant, or nearly consonant in my opinion, to the true principles of the common law : " in all indictments for libels, the jury shall have a right to determine the law and the facts, under the direction of the court, as in other cases." a The punishment of a libel is a fine,... | |
 | Charles Britten Johnson - Pennsylvania - 1819 - 190 pages
...publication of papers, investigating the official conduct of officers, or men in a public capacity, or where the matter published is proper for public information,...the jury shall have a right to determine the law and the facts, under the direction of tne court, as in other cases. SECT. VIII. That the people shall be... | |
 | 1821 - 454 pages
...the people, or where the. jniiter ; •• • : .l.shrd is proper for public inlbrmation, the truui thereof may be given in evidence, and in all indictments for libels, the jury, after having received the direction of the court, shall have a right to determine, at their discretion,... | |
 | Humphrey Marshall - Kentucky - 1824 - 542 pages
...publication of papers investigating the official conduct of officers, or men in a public capacity, or where the matter published is proper for public information,...the jury shall have a right to determine the law and the facts, under the direction of the court, as in other cases. "9. That the people shall be secure... | |
 | Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1825 - 400 pages
...official conduct of officers, or.men in a public capacity, or where the matter published is necessary or proper for public information, the truth thereof may...the jury shall have a right to determine the law and the facts, under the direction of the court, as in other cases. Adjourned until nine p'clock to-morrow,... | |
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In prosecutions for the publication of papers, investigating the official conduct of officers, or men in a public capacity, or where the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence ; and, in all indictments... 
