 ... no 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 may be given in evidence to the jury ; and if it. shall appear to the jury, that the matter charged...  Laws of the State of New York - Page xby New York (State) - 1823Full view - About this book
 | Michigan, Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Law - 1857 - 828 pages
...given iJix-i*: truth m»y in evidence to the jury; and if it shall appear to the jury that <ien?".en the matter charged as libellous is true, and was published with good motives and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted. The jury shall have the right to determine... | |
 | New York (State) - Law - 1859 - 1086 pages
...abuse of that of thepreu right ; and no law shall be passed, to restrain or abridge the liberty Mour ' of speech or of the press. In all prosecutions or...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... | |
 | New York (State). Commissioners of the Code - Law - 1859 - 670 pages
...no 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...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... | |
 | New York (State). Commissioners of the Code - Law - 1859 - 670 pages
...no 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...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 justifiaSECTION'... | |
 | Almanacs, American - 1859 - 448 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...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... | |
 | 1859 - 452 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...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... | |
 | New York (State). Commissioners of the Code - Law - 1860 - 668 pages
...no 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...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... | |
 | David W. Mitchell - History - 1862 - 372 pages
...no 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 may be given in evidence to the jury. The people of this State, in their right of sovereignty, are deemed to possess the original... | |
 | California - Session laws - 1863 - 908 pages
...passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. la all criminal prosecutions on indictments for libels, the truth may be given in...charged as libellous is true, and was published with pood motives, and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted : ami die jury shall have the... | |
 | New York (State) - Law - 1863 - 1036 pages
...law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech, or of the pi-ess. In all criminal prosecutions , or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence i to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the jury, that the matter charged as libellous is true, and... | |
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