In all criminal 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 libelous is true, and was published with good motives and for justifiable ends, the party shall be... The Oklahoma Law Journal - Page 91907Full view - About this book
| New York (State). Legislature - New York (State) - 1887 - 102 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 jury, that the matter charged as libelous is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted;... | |
| Moses Severance - Readers - 1832 - 312 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 jury, that the matter charged as libelous, is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted... | |
| Benjamin Franklin Hall - Real property - 1847 - 480 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 jury, that the matter charged as libelous is true, and was published with good motives and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted... | |
| John Bigelow - Constitutions - 1848 - 538 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 jury, that the matter charged as libelous is true, and was published with good motives and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted... | |
| Benjamin Franklin Hall - Real property - 1849 - 482 pages
...speech or of the presť. In all prosecutions or indictments f jr libels, the truth miy be given in evidence to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the jury, that the matter charged as libelous is true, and was published with good motives and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted;... | |
| California. Constitutional Convention, John Ross Browne - California - 1850 - 540 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 jury that the matter charged as libelous :- true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted... | |
| John Ross Browne - Constitutional conventions - 1850 - 538 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 jury that the matter charged as libelous is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted... | |
| Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1918 - 854 pages
...Constitution (section 18, art. 2) provides: "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 libelous is true and was published with good motives and for justifiable ends, the accused shall be acquitted."... | |
| Ohio - Law - 1852 - 362 pages
...speech, or of the press. In all criminal of ^ b ^ s prosecutions for libel, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury, and if it shall appear to the jury, that the matter charged as libelous is true, and was publishedwith good motives, and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted.... | |
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