 | Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1853 - 688 pages
...incorporating therein a declaration that in all criminal proceedings for libel, 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. On motion of Mr. RICE, of Leverett,... | |
 | Jesse B. Hart - Civil procedure - 1853 - 334 pages
...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 ; and...right to determine the law and the fact. • SEC. 10. The people shall have the right freely to assemble together, to consult for the common good, to... | |
 | Wisconsin. Legislature. Assembly - Wisconsin - 1853 - 134 pages
...to the jury that the matter charged as libelous be true, and was published with good motives and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted ; and...the right to determine the law and the fact. SEC. 4. The right of the people peaceably to assemble to consult for the common good, and to petition the... | |
 | Jonathan French - 1854 - 534 pages
...law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all criminal prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth...be acquitted ; and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the fact. 9. The assent of two-thirds of the members elected to each branch of... | |
 | Frank Soulé, John H. Gihon, Jim Nisbet - California - 1855 - 860 pages
...passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. In all criminal prosecutions on indictments for libels, the truth may be given in...have the right to determine the law and the fact Sec, 10. The people shall have tho right freely to assemble together, to consult for the commec good, to... | |
 | Constitutions, State - 1855 - 576 pages
...liberty of speech, or of the press. In all criminal prosecutions for libel, 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. 12. No person shall be transported... | |
 | State Historical Society of Wisconsin - Wisconsin - 1928 - 1000 pages
...to the jury that the matter charged as libelous 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. "Section 4. The people shall at all times have the right in a peaceable... | |
 | Jonathan French - Newspapers - 1857 - 594 pages
...law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all criminal prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth...as libellous is true, and was published with good motive*, and for jusiifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted ; and the jury shall have the right... | |
 | William H. R. Wood - Law - 1857 - 834 pages
...the jury that the matter charged1 as libelous is 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. XI. OFFENSES AOAIXST PUBLIC MORALITY, HEALTH AND POLICE. ART. 1982,... | |
 | James Mursell Phillippo - Cuba - 1857 - 506 pages
...speaking, and writing, and publishing his sentiments, on any subject, provided the jury shall be satisfied that the matter charged as libellous is true, and was published with good motives and for justifiable conduct. And the Constitution of the other States is similar. This guarantee... | |
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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... 
