 ... 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
 | California - California - 1872 - 732 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... | |
 | California, Creed Haymond, John Chilton Burch, John Hill McKune - Civil procedure - 1872 - 886 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... | |
 | Elder James A. Little - 1872 - 862 pages
...restrain or abridge the liburty of speech or of the press. In all criminal prosecutions and civil actions 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 justiliable... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1873 - 788 pages
...speech, or of the press. In all criminal prosecutions or indictments 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 and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted, and the jury shall have the right to determine... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1897 - 1212 pages
...Un the other hand, the section of the declaration of rights (Const. art. 1, { 7) which declares that "in all 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."... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1899 - 1240 pages
...libels were provided for In these sections: "No law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. In all prosecutions or Indictments for libel the truth may be given In evidence to the jury; and If it shall appear to the jury that the matter... | |
 | New York (State) - Law - 1916 - 680 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... | |
 | California. Legislature. Senate - 1874 - 1206 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... | |
 | California. Legislature. Senate - 1891 - 1018 pages
...criminal libel, after conviction thereof by a jury, as hereinafter provided. 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... | |
 | California. District Courts of Appeal - Law reports, digests, etc - 1909 - 908 pages
...be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. In nil 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... | |
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