 | Jacob D. Wheeler - Criminal law - 1851 - 704 pages
...the abuse of that right ; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for...be acquitted, and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the fact." Art. 7, () 8. Sec also the remarks of the Recorder, ante. vol. 1,... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1851 - 706 pages
...mentioned, and is not quite so latitudinary in its indulgence as some of them. It declares, that " in all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the...as libellous is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted." These provisions in favour of giving... | |
 | John M. Letts - History - 1852 - 320 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...the 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... | |
 | Constitutional history - 1852 - 680 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...be acquitted ; and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the fact. 10. The people shall have the right freely to assemble together to... | |
 | Member of the New York Bar - Roman law - 1852 - 738 pages
...(1844) it is declared, that "in all prosecutions or indictments for libel, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the...be acquitted, and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the fact." The New York Constitution, adopted in 18-16, contains a similar clause... | |
 | A. S. Barnes - Constitutional history - 1852 - 674 pages
...either in his own proper person, or by an attorney or agent of his choice. 25. In all prosecutions for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to...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). Secretary's Office - New York (State) - 1853 - 476 pages
...speak, write, and 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. Section 9. The assent of two-thirds of the members Two-third elected... | |
 | John M. Letts - California - 1853 - 438 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...be acquitted : and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the fact. SEO. 10. The people shall have the right freely to assemble together,... | |
 | John Frederick Archbold - Criminal law - 1853 - 1006 pages
...to prove, and to hold him strictly to the proof of the particular specifications. Ib. NEW YORK. — In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the...as libellous is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable ends, tho party shall be acquitted; and the jury shall have tho right... | |
 | Joseph H. Mather, Linus Pierpont Brockett - New York (State) - 1853 - 462 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 motives, and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acqiu-tted ; and the jury shall have the right... | |
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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... 
