 | 1847 - 148 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 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... | |
 | Orville Luther Holley - 1847 - 140 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 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... | |
 | Ebenezer Meriam - 1847 - 224 pages
...the liberty of speech or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictment, and in civil actions (or 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 goocT motives and for justifiable... | |
 | John Bigelow - 1848 - 538 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...party .shall be acquitted ; and the jury shall have a right to determine the law and the fact. 9. The assent of two-thirds of the members elected to each... | |
 | James Kent - 1848 - 1046 pages
...latitudinary in its indulgence as some of them. It declares, that " 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... | |
 | Joseph H. Mather, Linus Pierpont Brockett - 1848 - 446 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 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... | |
 | William Euen - 1848 - 164 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 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... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 1040 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 justi(a)... | |
 | 1849 - 626 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 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... | |
 | William Johnson, New York (State). Supreme Court - 1849 - 866 pages
...passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press- In all prosecution! or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the jury, that the mailer 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... 
