 | John Chauncey Pease, John Milton Niles - 1819 - 500 pages
...law shall ever be passed to curtail or restrain the liberty of speech or of the press. § 7. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence, and the jury shall have the right to determine the 'aw and the facts, under the direction of the court.... | |
 | New York (State). Constitutional Convention, Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter, William Leete Stone - 1821 - 722 pages
...and uo law shall be passed, to restrain, or abridge, the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth...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... | |
 | New York (State). Constitutional Convention, Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter, William Leete Stone - 1821 - 716 pages
...law shall ever be passed to curtail, or restrain the liberty of speech, or of the press ; and in all prosecutions, or indictments, for libels, the truth may be given in evidence, if it be to appear, thai the matter charged as libellous, was published with good ul tnr justifiable... | |
 | New York (State) - 1823 - 516 pages
...and no law shall be passed, to restrain, or abridge the liberly of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth...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... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature - 1887 - 102 pages
...abuse of that right; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. In all criminal prosecutions or indictments...be acquitted; and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the fact. SEC. 9. The assent of two-thirds of the members elected to each branch... | |
 | 1826 - 228 pages
...; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth...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... | |
 | 1826 - 220 pages
...the jury, that the matter charged as libellous is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted; and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the fact. SEC. 9. The assent of two-thirds of the members elected to each branch... | |
 | Thomas Starkie - 1826 - 658 pages
...Court, as in other cases — The Constitutions of Connecticut and Mississippi, provide that in .'.II prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence, and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the facts, under the direction of the Court.... | |
 | James Kent - 1827 - 544 pages
...mentioned, and is not quite so latitudinary in its indulgence as some of them. It declares, that " in all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth...evidence to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the jury, that the matter charged as •ibellous, is true, and was published with good motives, and for... | |
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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 libelous is true, and was published with good motives and for justifiable ends, the... 
