 | William Johnson, New York (State). Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1849 - 866 pages
...papers investigating the official conduct of officers or men in public capacity, or where the mutter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given la People v. Croswell. trust, or being a candidate for any such office, made no discrimination in respect... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - Ohio - 1848 - 140 pages
...capacity, or where the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may always be given in evidence ; and in all indictments for...the law and the facts, under the direction of the court, as in other cases. § 7. That all courts shall be open, and every person, for an injury done... | |
 | Kentucky - Session laws - 1851 - 544 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. All power in the people. Liherty of conscience. Religion. Elections. Trial... | |
 | Kentucky - Law - 1851 - 548 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. All power in the people. Liberty of con•cience. Religion. Elections. Trial... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1851 - 830 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... | |
 | Jacob D. Wheeler - Criminal law - 1851 - 704 pages
...often almost inseparably connected with each other. What says the constitution upon this point? In indictments for libels, the jury shall have a right...determine the law and the facts under the direction of the court, as in other cases. From the evidence it appears that John Carson, the deceased, was married... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1851 - 824 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,...may be given in evidence; and in all indictments for libelslhe Jury shall have a right to determine the law, and the fact, under the direction of the court,... | |
 | Constitutional history - 1852 - 680 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,...the truth thereof may be given in evidence ; and in nil indictments for libels, the jury may have the right to determine the law and the fa.;ts. 9. That... | |
 | Vermont. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1852 - 836 pages
...520. Henfield's Case, Wharton's St. Tr. 87, (1793.) The Sedition Law, passed in 1798, declares, that the jury shall have a right to determine the law and the facts, as in other cases. Whart. St. Tr. 337. Frier's Case, Ib. 587, (1797.) Cullender's Case, Ib. 710, (1800.)... | |
 | William Forsyth - Jury - 1852 - 506 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... | |
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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... 
