 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Law - 1860 - 874 pages
...may freely speak, write, and print on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty. In prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating...conduct of officers, or men in a public capacity, or when the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence... | |
 | Mississippi. Supreme Court, Thomas Alexander Marshall, William C. Smedes, Volney Erskine Howard, Robert John Walker, John Franklin Cushman, James Zachariah George - Law reports, digests, etc - 1912 - 1022 pages
...communications. Under Constitution 1890, § 13. providing that in prosecutions for libel, the jury may determine the law and the facts under the direction of the court, it is proper for the court to instruct that all the law to be considered by the jury in reaching a... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1972 - 1362 pages
...may freely speak, write, and print on any subject, being responsible, for the abuse of thai liberty. In prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating...the truth thereof may be given in evidence ; and in ¡\11 indictments for libels the jury shall linve a right to determine the law and the facts, under... | |
 | Amos Jenkins Peaslee, Dorothy Peaslee Xydis - Law - 1974 - 1164 pages
...may freely speak, write and print, on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty. In prosecutions for the publication of papers, investigating...truth thereof may be given in evidence. And in all indictment for libels, the jury shall have right to determine the law and the facts, under the direction... | |
 | Jeffery A. Smith - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1990 - 246 pages
...government, but that they were otherwise responsible for the "abuse" of that liberty. New language said that in "prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating...matter published is proper for public information" truth could be given in evidence and the jury would determine both the law and facts of the case. Kentucky... | |
 | Claudia L. Bushman, Harold Bell Hancock, Elizabeth Moyne Homsey - Political Science - 1988 - 1040 pages
...the Abuse of the Liberty. In Prosecutions for Publications investigating the Proceedings of Officers, or where the Matter published is proper for public...Evidence; and in all Indictments for Libels, the Jury may determine the Facts and the Law, as in other Cases. It was moved by Mr. Basset, seconded by Mr.... | |
 | John Thomas Scopes - Law - 1997 - 356 pages
...publications of papers investigating the official conduct of officers, or men in public capacity, and the truth thereof, may be given in evidence; and in all indictments for libel the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the facts under the direction of the court,... | |
 | John R. Vile, Mark E. Byrnes - Tennessee - 1998 - 332 pages
...freely speak, write, and print on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty. But in prosecutions for 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 all indictments for libel, the... | |
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In prosecutions for the publication of papers, investigating the official conduct of officers or men in a public capaci•ty, or where the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence. And in all indictments.... 
