| United States. President (1849-1850 : Taylor) - California - 1850 - 1016 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... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1850 - 1028 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... | |
| John Frost - California - 1850 - 558 pages
...passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. In all criminal prosecutions on 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... | |
| California. Constitutional Convention, John Ross Browne - California - 1850 - 534 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 may be i in evidence to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the jury that the matter charged as libclous... | |
| Michigan - Constitutions - 1850 - 40 pages
...either in his own proper person, or by an attorney or agent of his choice. § 25. In all prosecutions 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... | |
| Michigan. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional amendments - 1850 - 990 pages
...laws shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. In all prosecutions 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... | |
| California. Constitutional Convention, John Ross Browne - California - 1850 - 528 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 may tie given in evidence to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the jury that the matter charged as libellious... | |
| John Ross Browne - Constitutional conventions - 1850 - 538 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 may lie given in evidence to the jury; and if it shall appear to the jury that the matter charged as libellious... | |
| Jacob D. Wheeler - Criminal law - 1851 - 704 pages
...right ; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or the press. 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... | |
| James Kent - Law - 1851 - 706 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... | |
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