 | New York (State). Legislature - New York (State) - 1887 - 102 pages
...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 libelous is true, and was published with good motives, and for justi.. fiable ends, the party shall be acquitted; and the jury shall have the right... | |
 | Moses Severance - Readers - 1832 - 316 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Moses Severance - American literature - 1836 - 312 pages
...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 libelous, is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiaDle ends, the party shall be acquitted; and the jury shall have the right... | |
 | Moses Severance - Readers - 1840 - 314 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Moses Severance - Readers - 1841 - 312 pages
...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 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... | |
 | John Bigelow - Constitutions - 1848 - 538 pages
...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 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... | |
 | California. Constitutional Convention, John Ross Browne - California - 1850 - 540 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Constitutional history - 1852 - 680 pages
...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 libelous is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted ; and the jury shall have a right to... | |
 | Joseph H. Mather, Linus Pierpont Brockett - New York (State) - 1853 - 462 pages
...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 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... | |
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the truth may be given in evidence to the jury, and if the matter charged as libelous is true, and was published with good motives and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted." In the state of Vermont, however, and perhaps a few other states,... 
