 | New York (State) - 1830 - 424 pages
...passed to restrain or abridge the liberty 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 libellous is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable... | |
 | New York (State) - 1831 - 392 pages
...the jury, that the matter charged as libellous is true, aJid 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. SEC. IX. The assent of two thirds of the members elected to each branch... | |
 | William Sullivan - Books and reading - 1831 - 214 pages
...alleged to be libellous is found to be true, and to have been 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.—2. A school fund is created out of proceeds of sales of public lands... | |
 | Moses Severance - Readers - 1832 - 312 pages
...to restrain, or abridge, the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to...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... | |
 | Moses Severance - American literature - 1833 - 304 pages
...to restrain, or abridge, the liberty 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 t'he jury, that the mutter charged as libelous, is true, and was publishe with good motives, and for justifiable... | |
 | James Stuart - United States - 1833 - 928 pages
...the jury that the matter charged as libellous 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." The action to which I allude originated in public business, which... | |
 | Moses Severance - American literature - 1835 - 314 pages
...to restrain, or abridge, the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to...matter charged as libelous, is true, and was published vith good motives, and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted ; and the jury shall have... | |
 | Andrew White Young - Civics - 1835 - 316 pages
...the jury, that the matter charged as libellous 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. SEC. 9. The assent of two thirds of the members elected to each branch... | |
 | Andrew White Young - Political Science - 1836 - 334 pages
...passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictment 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... | |
 | La Roy Sunderland - Antislavery movements - 1836 - 194 pages
...to restrain or abridge the liberty 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 libellous is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable... | |
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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 libelous is true, and was published with good motives and for justifiable ends, the party... 
