In all criminal prosecutions 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;... Acts of the State of Ohio - Página 5por Ohio - 1852Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Wisconsin. Constitutional Convention - 1848 - 698 páginas
...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 aslibelous be true, and was published with good motives and for justifiable'... | |
| E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 1004 páginas
...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 libellous is true, and was published with good motives and for justifiable... | |
| William Euen - 1848 - 164 páginas
...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 libellous is true, and was published with good motives and for justifiable... | |
| Benjamin Franklin Hall - 1849 - 482 páginas
...speech or of the pres». In all prosecutions or indictments f jr libels, the truth miy be given in evidence to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the...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... | |
| William Johnson, New York (State). Supreme Court - 1849 - 866 páginas
...passed In 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 libellous is true, and was published with good motives aud for justifiable... | |
| John Ross Browne - 1850 - 538 páginas
...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...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... | |
| California. Constitutional Convention, John Ross Browne - 1850 - 540 páginas
...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 jury that the matter charged as libelous :- true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted... | |
| Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1918 - 854 páginas
...Constitution (section 18, art. 2) provides: "In all prosecutions for libels the truth may be given in evidence to the jury; and, if it shall appear to the...that the matter charged as libelous is true and was published with good motives and for justifiable ends, the accused shall be acquitted." It is urged... | |
| A. S. Barnes - 1852 - 674 páginas
...law shall be 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 jury, 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... | |
| Member of the New York Bar - 1852 - 738 páginas
...By the constitution of >'ew Jersey, (1844) it is declared, that "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 libellous is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable... | |
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