 | 1831 - 494 halaman
...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 halaman
...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 halaman
...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 halaman
...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 halaman
...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... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1851 - 822 halaman
...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... | |
 | Kentucky, Charles Slaughter Morehead, Mason Brown - 1834 - 810 halaman
...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... | |
 | Maine. Legislature - 1840 - 1264 halaman
...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 halaman
...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 halaman
...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... 
