 | Benjamin Franklin Hall - Real property - 1849 - 482 pages
...subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right. No law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. In all prosecutions...indictments for libel, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury, and if it appear to the jury that the matter charged as libelous was true, and was published... | |
 | William Johnson, New York (State). Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1849 - 866 pages
...of that right No law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the prsss. In all prosecutions or indictments for libel, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury, and if it appear to the jury that the matter charged as libellous was true, and was published... | |
 | Michigan - Constitutions - 1850 - 40 pages
...an attorney or agent of his choice. § 25. In all prosecutions for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury; and if it shall appear to the...as libellous, is true, and was published with good motives and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted. The jury shall hare the right to determine... | |
 | Michigan. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional amendments - 1850 - 990 pages
...prosecutions for libels, •he iruth may be given in evidence to the ury ; and if it shall appear to the jury that the matter charged as libellous is true, and was published with good motives and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted. The jury shall have the right to de°... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1851 - 706 pages
...them. It declares, that " in all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the...as libellous is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted." These provisions in favour of giving... | |
 | Constitutional history - 1852 - 680 pages
...passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all criminal prosecutions for libel, the truth may be given in evidence to the...as libellous is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted. 12. No person shall be transported... | |
 | A. S. Barnes - Constitutional history - 1852 - 674 pages
...by an attorney or agent of his choice. 25. In all prosecutions for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the...as libellous is true, and was published with good motives and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted. The jury shall have the right to determine... | |
 | Ohio - Law - 1852 - 362 pages
...restrain or abridge the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all criminal of ^ b ^ s prosecutions for libel, 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 publishedwith good motives, and for justifiable... | |
 | Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1853 - 574 pages
...to consider the expediency of incorporating therein a declaration that in all criminal proceedings for libel, the truth may be given in evidence to the...as libellous is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted. On motion of Mr. RICE, of Leverett,... | |
 | Joseph H. Mather, Linus Pierpont Brockett - New York (State) - 1853 - 462 pages
...or of the press. In all criminal prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the...as libellous is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acqiu-tted ; and the jury shall have the right... | |
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No law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libel, 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... 
