 | Jonathan French - 1857 - 594 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...libels, the jury shall have a right to determine the lav ami the facts, under the direction of the court, as in other cases. 8. That the people shall be... | |
 | Frederick Law Olmsted - 1857 - 570 sider
...public capacity, or when the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence ; and in all indictments for libels, the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the facts under the direction of the courts, as in other cases.... | |
 | Frederick Gerhard - 1857 - 466 sider
...public capacity, or when the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence; and in all indictments for libels, the jury shall have the right of determining both the law and the fact, under the direction of the court, as in other cases.... | |
 | Frederick Gerhard - 1857 - 474 sider
...public capacity, or when the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence ; and in all indictments for libels, the jury shall have the right of determining both the law and the fact, under the direction of the court, as in other cases.... | |
 | Edmund Hatch Bennett, Franklin Fiske Heard - 1857 - 642 sider
...520 ; Henfields case, Wharton's St. Tr. 87, (1793). The Sedition Law, passed in 1798, declares, that the jury shall have a right to determine the law and the facts, as in other cases. Whart. St. Tr. 337 ; 33* Jury — Judges of the Law in Criminal Cases. Frier's case,... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - 1864 - 960 sider
...concerning Libels was brought before the Legislature. It "declared that in every indictment or information, the Jury shall have a right to determine the law and the fact under the direction of the Court, as in other criminal cases." On the consideration of this bill,... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - 1857 - 754 sider
...evidence in his defence, the truth of the matter contained in the publication charged as a libel ; and the jury shall have a right to determine the law and the fact, under the direction of the Court, as in other ca.<cs," as in and by the said act, commonly called... | |
 | Charles Lindsey - 1862 - 846 sider
...men in a public capacity, or when the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may always be given in evidence, and in all indictments for libel, the jury shall have a right to determine the law and the fact. 72. No person arrested or confined... | |
 | Ezra Champion Seaman - 1863 - 312 sider
...men in public capacity, the mattef published is proper for public information, the truth tkereof may be given in evidence ; and in all indictments for...jury shall have a right to determine the law and the facta, under the direction of the court, as in other cases. 14. That no power of suspending laws shall... | |
 | Maryland. Constitutional Convention, William Blair Lord, Henry Martyn Parkhurst - 1864 - 744 sider
...of the people, or where the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence ; and in all indictments for libels, the jury after having received the direction of the court,.fehall have a right to determine, at their discretion,... | |
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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... 
