 | James Stuart - United States - 1833 - 552 pages
...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... | |
 | New Jersey - Session laws - 1842 - 1396 pages
...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... | |
 | New York (State). Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1846 - 410 pages
...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... | |
 | Jonathan French - United States - 1847 - 506 pages
...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... | |
 | Wisconsin. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1848 - 698 pages
...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... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1004 pages
...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... | |
 | William Euen - Education - 1848 - 164 pages
...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... | |
 | William Johnson, New York (State). Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1849 - 866 pages
...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... | |
 | Ohio - Law - 1852 - 362 pages
...restrain or abridge the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all criminal of ^ b ^ s 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 libelous is true, and was publishedwith good motives, and for... | |
 | Member of the New York Bar - Roman law - 1852 - 738 pages
...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... | |
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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 libelous is true and was published with good motives and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted. 
