 | Benjamin Franklin Hall - Real property - 1847 - 480 pages
...or of the press. In all criminal proaccutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the...as libellous is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable ends, the party shall be be acquitted ; and the jury shall have the right... | |
 | Ebenezer Meriam - Finance - 1847 - 224 pages
...press. In all prosecutions or indictment, and in civil actions (or libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the...charged as libellous is true, and was published with goocT motives and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted, and the jury shall have the right... | |
 | Jonathan French - United States - 1847 - 506 pages
...or of the press. In all criminal prosecutions or indictment? for libels, the truth may he given in evidence to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the...charged as libellous is true, and was published with got'd motives, and for jiistifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted ; and the jury shall have the... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1004 pages
...shall be denied the enjoyment of any civil right merely on account of his religious principles. " Every person may freely speak, write, and publish his sentiments...be acquitted; and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the fact. " The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, .papers... | |
 | William Euen - Education - 1848 - 164 pages
...or of the press. In all criminal prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the...be acquitted ; and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the fact. Section 9. The assent of two-thirds of the members elected to each... | |
 | Joseph H. Mather, Linus Pierpont Brockett - New York (State) - 1848 - 446 pages
...or of the press. In all criminal prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the...be acquitted ; and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the fact. See. 9. The assent of two-thirds of the members elected to each branch... | |
 | Andrew White Young - Constitutional history - 1839 - 384 pages
...or 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...be acquitted; and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the fact Section 9. The assent of two-thirds of the members elected to each branch... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1848 - 1046 pages
...them. It declares, that " in all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the...as libellous is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted." These provisions in favour of giving... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1040 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...as libellous is true, and was published with good motives and for justi(a) Art. 10, eec. 1. liable ends, the party shall be acquitted ; and the jury... | |
 | Wisconsin. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1848 - 698 pages
...the jury that the matter charged as libellous, be true, and was published with good motives and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted ; and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the fact. Sec. 4. The people shall at all times have the right in a peaceable... | |
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In all criminal 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... 
