| E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1004 pages
...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. In all criminal...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... | |
| William Euen - Education - 1848 - 164 pages
...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. In all criminal...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... | |
| Joseph H. Mather, Linus Pierpont Brockett - New York (State) - 1848 - 446 pages
...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. In all criminal...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... | |
| Andrew White Young - Constitutional history - 1839 - 384 pages
...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. In all criminal...indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury; and if it shah1 appear to the jury, that the matter charged as libellous is true, and... | |
| James Kent - Law - 1848 - 1046 pages
...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 libellous is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable... | |
| E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1040 pages
...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. In all criminal...prosecutions or indictments, for libels, the truth maybe given in evidence to the jury; and if it shall appear to the jury that the matter charged as... | |
| Wisconsin. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1848 - 698 pages
...being responsible for the abuse of that right, and no laws shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. In all criminal prosecutions or indictments for libel, the truth may be given in evidence, and if it shall appear to the jury that the mat-- ter charged... | |
| History, Modern - 1849 - 626 pages
...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. In all criminal...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... | |
| William Johnson, New York (State). Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1849 - 866 pages
...laws shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press- In all prosecution! or indictments for libels, the truth may be given...evidence to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the jury, that the mailer charged as libellous is true, and was published with good motives and for justifiable... | |
| Benjamin Franklin Hall - Real property - 1849 - 482 pages
...passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all criminal pro*ecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given...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... | |
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