 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 ends, the...  The American Jurist and Law Magazine - Seite 2391834Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Cobbett - 1818 - 628 Seiten
...footing ; namely ; " In all prosecutions and indictments for libel " the TRUTH may be given in evidence, and the " Jury shall have the right to determine the law " and the facts" Thus, then, common sense has, at last, got the better ; and TRUTH can, in this State, at least, in... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1819 - 630 Seiten
...footing; namely; " In all prosecutions and indictments for libel " the TRUTH may be given in evidence, and the " Jury shall have the right to determine the law " and the facts" Thus, then, common sense has, at last, got the better; and TRUTH can, in this State, at least, in no... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1819 - 186 Seiten
...footing ; namely, " In all prosecutions " and indictments for libel the TRUTH may be " given in evidence, and the Jury shall have the " right to determine the law and the facts." Thus, then, common sense has, at last, gotten the better ; and TRUTH can, in this state, at least,... | |
 | New York (State) - 1823 - 516 Seiten
...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...shall be acquitted ; and the jury shall have the right t» determine the law and the fact. SEC. IX. The assent of two thirds of the members elected to each... | |
 | 1826 - 228 Seiten
...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...be acquitted ; and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the fact. SEC. 9. The assent of two-thirds of the members elected to each branch... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature - 1887 - 102 Seiten
...the jury, that the matter charged as libelous is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted; and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the fact. SEC. 9. The assent of two-thirds of the members elected to each branch... | |
 | Thomas Starkie - 1826 - 658 Seiten
...Mississippi, provide that in .'.II prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence, and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the facts, under the direction of the Court. In .Vew Jersey, (Act of 12th June, 1799, Perm. Her, Laws, 475,) and... | |
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