 | 1831 - 494 Seiten
...The constitutions of Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, declare that ' in all indictments for libels, the jury shall have...the law and the facts, under the direction of the court, as in other cases.' A similar provision exists in the constitution of Delaware, with this difference,... | |
 | John Winslow Whitman - 1829 - 314 Seiten
...publication of papers investigating the 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
...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...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.... | |
 | William Darby, Theodore Dwight - 1833 - 634 Seiten
...for public m. formation, the truth thereof may always be given in evidence ; and in all indictment* for libels, the jury shall have a right to determine the law and the facts, nnder the direction of the courts, as in other cases." See. 15. — The person of a debtor, where there... | |
 | Tennessee. Constitutional Convention - 1834 - 430 Seiten
...the publication of papers investigating the official conduct of officers or men in public capacity, the truth thereof may be given in evidence; and in...the law and the facts, under the direction of the Court, as in other criminal cases. SEC. 20. That no retrospective law, or law impairing the obligation... | |
 | Kentucky, Charles Slaughter Morehead, Mason Brown - 1834 - 810 Seiten
...the Togive truth official conduct of officers, or men in a public capacity, or where fa CTidencethe matter published is proper for public information,...given in evidence: and in all indictments for libels, . Jary to "* the jury shall have a right to Determine the law and the facts, dufact umbels! under the... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1851 - 822 Seiten
...of papers investigating the official conduct of officers, or men in a public capacity, or where the matter published is proper for public information,...given in evidence ; and in all indictments for libels iheJury shall have a right to determine the law, and the fact, under the direction of the court, as... | |
 | Maine. Legislature - 1840 - 1264 Seiten
...capacity, or the qualifications of those who are candidates for the suffrages of the people, or where the matter published is proper for public information,...evidence, and in all indictments for libels the jury, after haying1 received the direction of the court, shall have a right to determine, at their discretion,... | |
 | Maine. Legislature - 1850 - 1204 Seiten
...capacity, or the qualifications of those who are candidates for the suffrages of the people, or where the matter published is proper for public information,...the truth thereof may be given in evidence, and in aJJ indictments for libels, the jury, after having received the direction of the court, shall have... | |
 | Maine. Legislature - 1847 - 892 Seiten
...candidates for the suffrages of the people, or where the matter published is proper for public mformation, the truth thereof may be given in evidence, and in all indictments for libels, the jury, after having received the direction of the court, shall 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 where the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence ; and, in all indictments... 
