 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...  Niles' National Register - Seite 831817Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Winterbotham - 1795 - 514 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...official conduct of officers or men in a public capacity, or where the? matter publimed is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given...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 Seiten
...publications, inveftigating the proceedings of officers, or where the matter publi(hed is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence : And in all indiciments for libels the jury may determine the facli and the law, as in other cafes. SECT. 6. The... | |
 | Edward Shippen, William Hamilton - 1805 - 590 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Illinois - 1818 - 32 Seiten
...conduct of officers, or of men acting 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 fot libels, the jurv shall h:ive the right of determining both the law and the fact, under the direction... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1829 - 532 Seiten
...papers investigating the official conduct of officers or men in a public capacity, or where the matter published is proper for the public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence', — and we consequently steer here clear of the uncertainty which in England has been thought more pernicious... | |
 | David Lee Child, John Winslow Whitman - 1829 - 124 Seiten
...official conduct of officers, or men in public capacity, or where the matter published is proper for public information the truth thereof may be given in evidence ;" and in this respect her example has been followed in many if not most of the States of later origin. But even... | |
 | John Cain - 1832 - 360 Seiten
...papers investigating the official conduct of officers or men in a public capacity, or where the matter published is proper for the public information, the...and in all indictments for libels, the jury shall hare a right to determine the law and the facts, under the direction of the court, as in other cases.... | |
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