 | William Winterbotham - 1795 - 514 sider
...officers, or men in a public capacity, or where the matter publifiied is proper for public information, fh? truth thereof may be given in evidence. And, in all indictments for libels, the jury fliall have a right to determine the law and the fafts, under the direction of the court, as in other... | |
 | William Winterbotham - 1796 - 580 sider
...invcftigating the official conduä of officers, or men in a public capacity, or where the nmter publifhed is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence. And, in all indi£lments for libels, the jury fhall have a right to determine the law and the fafts, under the... | |
 | Kentucky - 1799 - 606 sider
...inveftigating the official conduct of officers or men in a public capacity, or where the? matter publimed is proper for public information, the truth thereof...evidence. And in all indictments for libels, the jury fhall have a right to determine the law and the facis under the direction of the court, as in other... | |
 | James Wilson, Bird Wilson - 1804 - 456 sider
...footing, consonant, or nearly consonant in my opinion, to the true principles of the common law : " in all indictments for libels, the jury shall have...under the direction of the court, as in other cases." a The punishment of a libel is a fine, or a fifte and corporal punishment. r p Vol. 2. p. 336. et seq.... | |
 | Edward Shippen, William Hamilton - 1805 - 590 sider
...inveftigating the official conduct of officers, or men in a public capacity, ,<r where the matter publiflied is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence : And, in all indiflments for libels, the jury fliall have a right to determine the law and the facts, under the... | |
 | Hugh Henry Brackenridge - 1814 - 608 sider
...that " in prosecutions for the publications of papers, investigating the official conduct of officers, or men in a public capacity, or, where the matter...information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence." There is in this sentence, after the diversative conjunction or, what the grammarians call an ellipsis,... | |
 | Illinois - 1818 - 32 sider
...prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating the official conduct of officers, or of men acting in a public capacity, or where the matter published...thereof may be given in evidence. And in all indictments fot libels, the jurv shall h:ive the right of determining both the law and the fact, under the direction... | |
 | Charles Britten Johnson - 1819 - 190 sider
...liberty. In prosecutions for the publication of papers, investigating the official conduct of officers, or men in a public capacity, or where the matter published...determine the law and the facts, under the direction of tne court, as in other cases. SECT. VIII. That the people shall be secure in their persons, houses,... | |
 | Ohio - 1821 - 636 sider
...for the abuse of that liberty. In prosecution for any publication respecting the official conduct of men in a public capacity, or where the matter published is proper for public information, (ho truth thereof may always he given in evidence; and :n all indictments for libel?, the jury shall... | |
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In prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating the official conduct of officers, or men in a public capacity, or where the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence. And, in all indictments... 
