 | 1847 - 148 Seiten
...law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all criminal prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth...be acquitted ; and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the fact. Section 9. The assent of two-thirds of the members elected to each... | |
 | Orville Luther Holley - 1847 - 140 Seiten
...law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all criminal prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth...be acquitted ; and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the fact. Section 9. The assent of two-thirds of the members elected to each... | |
 | New York (State) - 1847 - 470 Seiten
...no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. In all criminal prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth...be acquitted; and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the fact. Two-third Section 9. The assent of two-thirds of the members elected... | |
 | 1847 - 98 Seiten
...speech or of the press. In all criminal prosecutions or indictments lor libel, the truth maybe given in evidence to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the...party shall be acquitted, and the jury shall have the light to deteruiiue the law and the fact. Matter of course. 9. The assent of two-thirds of the members... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Hall - 1847 - 480 Seiten
...passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all criminal proaccutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given...as libellous is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable ends, the party shall be be acquitted ; and the jury shall have the right... | |
 | Ebenezer Meriam - 1847 - 224 Seiten
...the liberty of speech or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictment, and in civil actions (or libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the...charged as libellous is true, and was published with goocT motives and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted, and the jury shall have the right... | |
 | Jonathan French - 1847 - 506 Seiten
...or of the press. In all criminal prosecutions or indictment? for libels, the truth may he given in evidence to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the...charged as libellous is true, and was published with got'd motives, and for jiistifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted ; and the jury shall have the... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 1004 Seiten
...being responsible for the abuse of that right; and no laws shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. In all prosecutions...be acquitted; and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the fact. " The person, houses, papers, and possessions of every individual shall... | |
 | Joseph H. Mather, Linus Pierpont Brockett - 1848 - 446 Seiten
...law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all criminal prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth...be acquitted ; and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the fact. See. 9. The assent of two-thirds of the members elected to each branch... | |
 | William Euen - 1848 - 164 Seiten
...no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. In all criminal prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth...be acquitted ; and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the fact. Section 9. The assent of two-thirds of the members elected to each... | |
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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 libellous is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable ends, the... 
