 | John Chauncey Pease, John Milton Niles - Connecticut - 1819 - 496 pages
...6. No law shall ever be passed to curtail or restrain the liberty of speech or of the press. § 7. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence, and the jury shall have the right to determine the 'aw and the facts, under the direction of the court.... | |
 | New York (State). Constitutional Convention, Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter, William Leete Stone - Constitutional conventions - 1821 - 722 pages
...compensation. VIII. Erery citizen may freely speak, write and publish his sentiments, on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right ; and no law...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,... | |
 | New York (State). Constitutional Convention, Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter, William Leete Stone - Constitutional conventions - 1821 - 718 pages
...and no law shall ever be passed to curtail, or restrain the liberty of speech, or of the press ; and in all prosecutions, or indictments, for libels, the truth may be given in evidence, if it be to appear, thai the matter charged as libellous, was published with good ul tnr justifiable... | |
 | New York (State) - Session laws - 1823 - 516 pages
...SEC. VIII. Every citizen may freely speak, write, and publish his sentiments, on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right; and no law shall be passed, to restrain, or abridge the liberly of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the... | |
 | Parliamentary practice - 1826 - 228 pages
...compensation. SEC. 8. Every citizen may freely speak, write and publish his sentiments, on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right ; and no law...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,... | |
 | Parliamentary practice - 1826 - 220 pages
...speak, write and publish his sentiments, on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that light; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge...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,... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature - New York (State) - 1887 - 102 pages
...benefited. SEC. 8. Every citizen may freely speak, write and pub lish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right; and no law...abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. In all criminal prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury; and... | |
 | Thomas Starkie - Libel and slander - 1826 - 658 pages
...Court, as in other cases — The Constitutions of Connecticut and Mississippi, provide that in .'.II prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence, and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the facts, under the direction of the Court.... | |
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Every citizen may freely speak, write, and publish his sentiments, on all subjects, 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. 
