 | John Frederick Archbold - Criminal law - 1853 - 1006 pages
...the. abuse of that liberty. In prosecutions for any publication respecting the official conduct of men in a public capacity, or where the matter published...proper for public information, the truth thereof may always be given in evidence ; and in all indictments for libels, the jury shall have a right to determine... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Liberia - 1853 - 318 pages
...for the abuse of that liberty. * * * And in all indictments for libels, the jury shall have aright 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... | |
 | Jonathan French - 1854 - 534 pages
...for the abuse of that liberty. In prosecutions for any publication respecting the official conduct of men in a public capacity, or where the matter published...proper for public information, the truth thereof may always be given in evidence ; and in all indictments for libels, the jury shall have a right to determine... | |
 | Constitutions, State - 1855 - 576 pages
...prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating the official conduct of officers or men in public capacity, or where the matter published is...evidence ; and in all indictments for libels, the jury may have tho right to determine the law and the facts. 9. That the people shall be secure in their... | |
 | Maine. Legislature. House of Representatives - Parliamentary practice - 1855 - 226 pages
...public capacity, or the qualifications of those who are candidates for the suffrages of the people, or where the matter published is proper for public...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,... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - Law - 1857 - 788 pages
...that in prosecations for the publication of papers investigating the official conduct of officers, or men in a public capacity, or where the matter published...Jury shall have a right to determine the law, and the fact, under the direction of the court, as in other cases. This is the situation in which the Constitution... | |
 | Jonathan French - Newspapers - 1857 - 594 pages
...liberty. In prosecutions for the publication of papers, investigating the official conduct of officers, or men in a public capacity, or where the matter published...libels, the jury shall have a right to determine the lav ami the facts, under the direction of the court, as in other cases. 8. That the people shall be... | |
 | Frederick Gerhard - History - 1857 - 466 pages
...papers investigating the official conduct of officers, or of men acting in a public capacity, or when the matter published is proper for public information,...in all indictments for libels, the jury shall have the right of determining both the law and the fact, under the direction of the court, as in other cases.... | |
 | Frederick Law Olmsted - Frontier and pioneer life - 1857 - 570 pages
...publication of papers investigating the official conduct of officers or men in public capacity, or when the matter published is proper for public information,...in all indictments for libels, the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the facts under the direction of the courts, as in other cases.... | |
 | Frederick Gerhard - History - 1857 - 480 pages
...papers investigating the official conduct of officers, or of men acting in a public capacity, or when the matter published is proper for public information,...in all indictments for libels, the jury shall have the right of determining both the law and the fact, under the direction of the court, as in other cases.... | |
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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... 
