| John Winslow Whitman - 1829 - 314 páginas
...prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating the official conduct of officers, or men in public capacity, or where the matter published is...the truth thereof may be given in evidence ;" and in this respect her example has been followed in many if not most of the States of later origin. But even... | |
| David Lee Child, John Winslow Whitman - 1829 - 124 páginas
...this indeed the people of Pennsylvania, had inserted this as an article of her constitution ; " that in prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating the official conduct of officers, or men in public capacity, or where the matter published is proper for public information the truth thereof may... | |
| John Cain - 1832 - 360 páginas
...speak, write, and print, on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty. SEC. 10. In prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating...capacity, or where the matter published is proper for the public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence; and in all indictments for libels,... | |
| Alabama, John Gaston Aikin - 1833 - 630 páginas
...investigating Libels, how the official conduct of officers or men in public capacity, or when the tned' matter published is proper for public information,...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... | |
| William Darby, Theodore Dwight - 1833 - 634 páginas
...press, and concludes thus : " In prosecutions for nny publication respecting the official conduct of men in a public capacity, or where the matter published is proper for public m. formation, the truth thereof may always be given in evidence ; and in all indictment* for libels,... | |
| United States. Congress - 1851 - 822 páginas
...freely speak, write, and print, on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty ; that in prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating...be given in evidence ; and in all indictments for libels iheJury shall have a right to determine the law, and the fact, under the direction of the court,... | |
| Tennessee. Constitutional Convention - 1834 - 430 páginas
...freely speak, write and print on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty. But in prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating the official conduct of officers or men in public capacity, the truth thereof may be given in evidence; and in all indictments for libels, the... | |
| Kentucky, Charles Slaughter Morehead, Mason Brown - 1834 - 810 páginas
...that liberty. SECTION 8. In prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating the Togive truth official conduct of officers, or men in a public capacity, or where fa CTidencethe matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in... | |
| Maine. Legislature - 1840 - 1264 páginas
...public capacity, or the qualifications of those who are candidates for the suffrages of the people, or where the matter published is proper for public...may be given in evidence, and in all indictments for libels the jury, after haying1 received the direction of the court, shall have a right to determine,... | |
| Maine. Legislature - 1850 - 1204 páginas
...public capacity, or the qualifications of those who are candidates for the suffrages of the people, or where the matter published is proper for public...the truth thereof may be given in evidence, and in aJJ indictments for libels, the jury, after having received the direction of the court, shall have... | |
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