 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1856 - 186 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...charged as libelous is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted. SEC. Vt. No person shall be transported... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1856 - 172 pages
...speech or of the press. In all criminal )rosecutions or indictments for libel, the truth nay be given in evidence to the jury, and if it shall appear to the...charged as libelous is true, and was published with good notives, and for justifiable ends, the party shall E>e acquitted. SEC. 12. No person shall be transported... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1856 - 180 pages
...or indictments for libel, the truth may be given in evidence to tho jurv, and if it shall appear to the jury that the matter charged as libelous is true, and was published with good motivesj and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acqaitted. SEC. la. No person shall be transported... | |
 | William H. R. Wood - Law - 1857 - 834 pages
...restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. In all criminal prosecutions on indictments lor libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury ; and if it shall appear to tho jury that the matter charged as libelous is true, and was published with good motives and for justifiable... | |
 | Jonathan French - Newspapers - 1857 - 594 pages
...that the matter charged 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 to determine the law and the fact. 9. The assent of two-thirds of the members elected to each branch of... | |
 | Maurice A. Richter - United States - 1858 - 318 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." I refer to my remarks at clause third. It has been a disputed question... | |
 | Andrew White Young - International law - 1858 - 460 pages
...provided by law or by their constitutions, that " the truth may be given in evidence to the jury ; and if the matter charged as libelous is true, and was published with good motives and for justifiable ends, the part}' shall be acquitted." In the state of Vermont, however,... | |
 | Almanacs, American - 1859 - 448 pages
...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...be acquitted; and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the fact. SEC. 10. The people shall have the right freely to assemble together,... | |
 | New York (State). Commissioners of the Code - Law - 1859 - 670 pages
...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...be acquitted; and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the fact. SECTION 9. The assent of two-thirds of the members Two-third bins,... | |
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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... 
