| United States. President (1849-1850 : Taylor) - 1850 - 1016 páginas
...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 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... | |
| John Ross Browne - 1850 - 538 páginas
...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 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... | |
| California. Constitutional Convention, John Ross Browne - 1850 - 540 páginas
...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 may be given in evidence to the jury; and if it shall appear to the jury that the matter charged as libellious is true, and... | |
| Kentucky - 1851 - 544 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. All power in the people. Liherty of conscience. Religion. Elections. Trial by jury.... | |
| Indiana. Constitutional Convention - 1851 - 1104 páginas
...prosecutions for libel, the truth of the matter alleged to be libellous may be given in in justification, and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the facts. SBC. 3. All courts shall be open, and every person, for injury done to him in his person, property,... | |
| James Kent - 1851 - 706 páginas
...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 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... | |
| Jacob D. Wheeler - 1851 - 704 páginas
...right ; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or 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... | |
| Vermont. Supreme Court - 1852 - 836 páginas
...The constitution of that state provided, 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. The court say, it would seem from this, " that the framers of our bill of rights... | |
| 1852 - 470 páginas
...Connecticut, Indiana, and Mississippi, the jury are empowered, in all prosecutions or indictments for libels, to determine the law and the facts under the direction of the Court, and the truth of the alleged libel may be given in evidence. In New Hampshire the constitution provides... | |
| William Forsyth - 1852 - 506 páginas
...Connecticut, Indiana, and Mississippi, the jury are empowered, in all prosecutions or indictments for libels, to determine the law and the facts under the direction of the court, and the truth of the alleged libel may be given in evidence. In New Hampshire the constitution pro1... | |
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