 | 1841 - 460 páginas
...; 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 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... | |
 | N. Doran Maillard - 1842 - 544 páginas
...law shall ever be passed to curtail the liberty of speech or of the press ; and in all prosecutions for libels, the truth may be given in evidence, and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and act under the direction of the court. Fifth. The people shall be secure in their... | |
 | New York (State). Secretary's Office - 1842 - 266 páginas
...right ; 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 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... | |
 | 1844 - 506 páginas
...section of the 7th article of the constitution of the state of New York, it is ordained, that "in all 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... | |
 | Peter Oxenbridge Thacher - 1845 - 756 páginas
...libel, may appeal therefrom, unto the supreme judicial court. Now, the same provision is jury shall have right to determine the law and the facts, under the direction of the court, as in other cases." — Const. Art. VIII Sec. 6. "All laws and parts of laws, now in force in this... | |
 | Andrew White Young - 1846 - 240 páginas
...thereof may always be given in evidence ; and in all indictments for libels, the jury shall have a right to determine the law and the facts, under the direction of the court, as in other cases. 7. That all courts shall be open, and every person, for any injury done him in his... | |
 | New York (State). Constitutional Convention - 1846 - 410 páginas
...; 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 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... | |
 | 1847 - 392 páginas
...one shall be incompetent as a witness on account of his opinions upon religion. In all libel cases the truth may be given in evidence, and the jury shall have the right to decide the law and the fact. All feudal tenures, with all their incidents, are abolished ; except such... | |
 | Jonathan French - 1847 - 506 páginas
...the truth thereof may be given in evidence. And in all indictments for libels, the jury shall have a right to determine the law and the facts, under the direction of the court, as in other cases. 9. That the people shall be secure in their persons, houses, papsrs, and possessions,... | |
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... the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the fact. 
