 | William Winterbotham - 1795 - 514 sider
...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... | |
 | Kentucky - 1799 - 606 sider
...public capacity, or where the? matter publimed is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in 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... | |
 | 1800 - 306 sider
...papers inveftigating the official conduft of officers or men in public capacity, the truth thereof may be given in evidence; and in all indictments for libels, the jury (hall have a right to determine the law and the tafts, under the direction of the court, as in other... | |
 | 1804 - 372 sider
...papers investigating the official conduct of ofacers or men in public capactty, the truth thereof may be given in evidence ; and in all indictments for...a right to determine the law and the facts, under tlie direction of tire court as in other cases. XX. That no retrospective law, or law impairing the... | |
 | Charles Britten Johnson - 1819 - 190 sider
...public capacity, or where the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence: And, in all indictments for...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,... | |
 | 1821 - 454 sider
...or where the. jniiter ; •• • : .l.shrd is proper for public inlbrmation, the truui thereof may be given in evidence, and in all indictments for libels, the jury, after having received the direction of the court, shall have a right to determine, at their discretion,... | |
 | Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - 1825 - 400 sider
...or where the matter published is necessary or proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence ; and in all indictments for...shall have a right to determine the law and the facts un5 der the direction of the court, as in other cases ?" The yeas and nays, being called by Mr. Thomas... | |
 | 1828 - 494 sider
...information, the truth thereof may always he given in evidence ; and in all indictments for lihels, the jury shall have a right to determine the law and the facts, nnder the direction of the cQurt, us in other cases. 7. That all courts shall he open, and every person,... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - 1828 - 880 sider
...that cause, were put at rest by the act of April 6lh, 1805, (m-ss. 28, ch. 90,) which declared that the jury shall have a right to determine the law and the fact, under the direction of the court ; and that it .shall be lawful to give the truth in evidence,... | |
| |
In prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating the official conduct of officers, or men, in a public capacity, or when the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence. And in all indictments... 
