 | Theodore Sedgwick - 1857 - 770 páginas
...several of the State constitutions on this important subject: — Maine. — " The people shall be secure in their persons, houses, papers and possessions, from unreasonable searches and seizures ; and no warrant to search any place, or seize any person or thing, shall issue without a special designation... | |
 | Frederick Law Olmsted - 1857 - 570 páginas
...truth thereof may be given in evidence ; and 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. BKC. 7. The people shall be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and... | |
 | Edmund Hatch Bennett, Franklin Fiske Heard - 1857 - 642 páginas
...520 ; Henfields case, Wharton's St. Tr. 87, (1793). The Sedition Law, passed in 1798, declares, that the jury shall have a right to determine the law and the facts, as in other cases. Whart. St. Tr. 337 ; 33* Jury — Judges of the Law in Criminal Cases. Frier's case,... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - 1858 - 666 páginas
...speedy public trial by an impartial jury ;" " and in all indictments for libels, the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the facts, under the direction of the Court, as in other cases." Art. 1, §§ 10, 13. Yet under these provisions, and the beneficent common law, it was held error by... | |
 | Rollin Carlos Hurd - 1858 - 714 páginas
...be -probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation. TENNESSEE, ILLINOIS. That the people shall be secure in their persons, houses, papers and possessions, from unreasonable searches and seizures; and that general warrants, whereby an officer may be commanded to search suspected places, without evidence... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - 1860 - 874 páginas
...proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence ; and in all indictments for libels the jury shall have a right to determine...under the direction of the court, as in other cases." (Const. Penn., Art. IX. s. 7.) In some constitutions the extension of the right to give the truth in... | |
 | United States. Department of State - 1888 - 1024 páginas
...1, of the constitution of Texas provides that 'in all indictments for libels the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the facts, under the direction of the court, as in other cases.' •'These provisions rentier it wholly unwarrantable for any judge, domestic or foreign, alone to decide... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1841 - 704 páginas
...made, and no conviction shall work corruption of blood or forfeiture of estate. The people shall be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and possessions, from unreasonable searches and seizures ; and, thatgeneral warrants, whereby an officer may be commanded to search suspected places, without evidence... | |
 | Pennsylvania. General Assembly - 1863 - 84 páginas
...proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence ; and in all indictments for libels, the jury shall have a right to determine...under the direction of the court, as in other cases. Searches and SECT. VIII. That the people shall be secure in their persons, seizures. houses, papers... | |
 | Ezra Champion Seaman - 1863 - 312 páginas
...proper for public information, the truth tkereof may be given in evidence ; and in all indictments for libels, the jury shall have a right to determine the law and the facta, under the direction of the court, as in other cases. 14. That no power of suspending laws shall... | |
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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... 
