...indictments for libels, the truth in prosecutions 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, security from SECT. 8. The people shall be secure in their persons, houses, searches find i . » i_»...

...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...under the direction of the court, as in other cases. SECT. 16. No subsidy, charge, impost, or duties ought to be established, fixed, laid, or levied, under...

...liberty ; and in all prosecutions for libel, the truth thereof may be given in evidence, and the jury may determine the law and the facts, under the direction of the court. Mo., 348. — That every citizen may freely speak, write and publish his sentiments on all subjects,...

...; that in all prosecutions for libel, the truth thereof may be given in evidence, and the jury may determine the law and the facts, under the direction of the court. 28. That no ex post facto law, nor law impairing the obligation of contracts, or retrospective in its...

...; that in all prosecutions for libel, the truth thereof may be given in evidence, and the jury may determine the law and the facts, under the direction of the court. 28. That no ex post facto law, nor law impairing the obligation of contracts, or retrospective in its...

...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...under the direction of the court, as in other cases. SEC, 16. No subsidy, charge, impost, or duties ought to be established, fixed, laid, or levied, under...

...published is proper for public infonna" ' tion, the truth thereof may be given in evi" 'dence; and in all indictments for libels, the jury " ' shall...the direction of the Court, " ' as in other cases.' I thus quote the Consti" tution partly in order to introduce a remark " upon the well-known British...

...truth thereof may be given in evidence. And in all indictments for libels, the jury shall have a righfr to determine the law and the facts, under the direction of the court, as in other cases. SEC. 16. No subsidy, charge, impost, or duties ought to be established, fixed, laid, or levied, under%...

...communications. Under Constitution 1890, § 13. providing that in prosecutions for libel, the jury may determine the law and the facts under the direction of the court, it is proper for the court to instruct that all the law to be considered by the jury in reaching a...

...matter published is PROPER for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence: and all INDICTMENTS for libels the jury shall have a right...law and the facts, under the direction of the court. That provision, which left the common law of seditious libel intact, was written by James Wilson, next...