 | 1847 - 98 sider
...speech or of the press. In all criminal prosecutions or indictments lor libel, the truth maybe given in evidence to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the...party shall be acquitted, and the jury shall have the light to deteruiiue the law and the fact. Matter of course. 9. The assent of two-thirds of the members... | |
 | Jonathan French - 1847 - 506 sider
...or of the press. In all criminal prosecutions or indictment? for libels, the truth may he given in evidence to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the...charged as libellous is true, and was published with got'd motives, and for jiistifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted ; and the jury shall have the... | |
 | Ebenezer Meriam - 1847 - 224 sider
...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...charged as libellous is true, and was published with goocT motives and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted, and the jury shall have the right... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Hall - 1847 - 480 sider
...subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right. No law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. In all prosecutions...indictments for libel, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury, and if it appear to the jury that the matter charged as libelous was true, and was published... | |
 | Iowa - 1847 - 856 sider
...subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right. No law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. In all prosecutions...indictments for libel, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury, and, if it appear to the jury that the matter charged as libelous was true, and was published... | |
 | Illinois. Constitutional Convention - 1847 - 618 sider
...for the abuse of that right; no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or the press; in all prosecutions or indictments for libel, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury, and the jury shnll have the right to determine the law and the fact, under the instructions... | |
 | Wisconsin. Constitutional Convention - 1848 - 698 sider
...being responsible for the abuse of that right, and no laws shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. In all prosecutions...evidence to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the jury that the matter charged aslibelous be true, and was published with good motives and for justifiable'... | |
 | James Kent - 1848 - 1046 sider
...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...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... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 1040 sider
...responsible for the abuse of that liberty. " No law shall ever be passed to curtail or restrain the liberty of speech, or of the press. • " In all prosecutions...indictments for libel, the truth may be given in evidence ; and if it shall appear to the jury that the matter charged as libellous is true, and was published... | |
 | John Bigelow - 1848 - 538 sider
...subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right. No law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. In all prosecutions...indictments for libel, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury, and if it appear to the jury that the matter charged as libellous was true, and was published... | |
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No law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libel, 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... 
