 | International law - 1852 - 470 pages
...Connecticut, Indiana, and Mississippi, the jury are empowered, in all prosecutions or indictments for libels, to determine the law and the facts under the direction of the Court, and the truth of the alleged libel may be given in evidence. In New Hampshire the constitution... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1852 - 886 pages
...evidence in his ' defence, the truth of the matter conlained in the 1 publication charged as a libel ; and the jury shall ' have a right to determine the law and the fact, ( under the direction of the court, as in other ' cases," as in and by the said act, commonly... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1852 - 890 pages
...evidence in his ' defence, the truth of the matter contained in the ' publication charged as a libel ; and the jury shall 'have a right to determine the law and the fact, 'nnder tue direction of the court, as in other 'tajes," as in and by the said act, commonly callfd... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Liberia - 1853 - 340 pages
...freely speak, write, and print on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty. * * * And in all indictments for libels, the jury shall...the law and the facts, under the direction of the court, as in other cases. Sec. 16. No subsidy, charge, impost, or duties ought to be established, fixed,... | |
 | John Frederick Archbold - Criminal law - 1853 - 1006 pages
...capacity, or the qiialilications of those who are candidates for the suffrages of the people, or where the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence ; and, if established, it shull bo held a complete justification. In the trial of any criminal prosecution... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Liberia - 1853 - 318 pages
...for the abuse of that liberty. * * * And in all indictments for libels, the jury shall have aright to determine the law and the facts, under the direction of the court, as in other cases. Sec. 16. No subsidy, charge, impost, or duties ought to be established, fixed,... | |
 | Jonathan French - 1854 - 534 pages
...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 law and the facts, under the direction of the court, as in other cases. 9. That the people shall be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and... | |
 | Maine. Legislature. House of Representatives - Parliamentary practice - 1855 - 226 pages
...capacity, or the qualifications of those who are candidates for the suffrages of the people, or where the matter published is proper for public information,...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,... | |
 | Constitutions, State - 1855 - 576 pages
...publication of papers investigating the official conduct of officers or men in public capacity, or where the matter published is proper for public information,...evidence ; and in all indictments for libels, the jury may have tho right to determine the law and the facts. 9. That the people shall be secure in their... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - Law - 1857 - 788 pages
...of papers investigating the official conduct of officers, or men in a public capacity, or where the matter published is proper for public information,...Jury shall have a right to determine the law, and the fact, under the direction of the court, as in other cases. This is the situation in which the Constitution... | |
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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... 
