 | e. & g.w. blunt - 1828 - 884 pages
...that cause, were put at rest by the act of April 6th, 1805, (test. 28, ch. 90,) which declared that the jury shall have a. right to determine the law and the fact, under the direction of the court ; and that it shall be lawful to give the truth in evidence,... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - History - 1828 - 880 pages
...that cause, were put at rest by the act of April 6lh, 1805, (m-ss. 28, ch. 90,) which declared that the jury shall have a right to determine the law and the fact, under the direction of the court ; and that it .shall be lawful to give the truth in evidence,... | |
 | Constitutions - 1828 - 494 pages
...any suhject, heing responsihle for the ahuse of that liherty. 10. In prosecutions for the puhlication of papers investigating the official conduct of officers or men in a puhlic capacity, or where the matter puhlished is proper for the puhlie information, the truth thereof... | |
 | Law - 1831 - 494 pages
...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 - Freedom of the press - 1829 - 314 pages
...prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating the official conduct of officers, or men in public capacity, or where the matter published is...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... | |
 | David Lee Child, John Winslow Whitman - Freedom of the press - 1829 - 124 pages
...this indeed the people of Pennsylvania, had inserted this as an article of her constitution ; " that in prosecutions for the 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... | |
 | John Cain - Forms (Law) - 1832 - 360 pages
...speak, write, and print, on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty. SEC. 10. In prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating...capacity, or where the matter published is proper for the public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence; and in all indictments for libels,... | |
 | Alabama, John Gaston Aikin - Law - 1833 - 630 pages
...investigating Libels, how the official conduct of officers or men in public capacity, or when the tned' matter published is proper for public information,...the law and the facts, under the direction of the courts. SEC. 15. Returns of all elections I'or officers who are to be commis- Election resioned by... | |
 | Alabama, John Gaston Aikin - Law - 1833 - 664 pages
...or when the £,rr°[S"unl matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof nay be given in evidence ; and in all indictments for...determine the law and the facts under the direction of »he courts. 2. PRELIMINARY PROCEEDINGS BY JUSTICES OF THE PEACE, &c. 'П. It shall be lawful for any... | |
 | William Darby, Theodore Dwight - Geography - 1833 - 634 pages
...press, and concludes thus : " In prosecutions for nny publication respecting the official conduct of men in a public capacity, or where the matter published is proper for public m. formation, the truth thereof may always be given in evidence ; and in all indictment* for libels,... | |
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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... 
