 | John Chauncey Pease, John Milton Niles - 1819 - 496 strani
...6. No 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 strani
...responsible for the abuse of that right ; and uo law shall be passed, to restrain, or abridge, the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions...as libellous, is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable cuds, the party shall be acquitted ; and the jury shall have the right... | |
 | New York (State). Constitutional Convention, Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter, William Leete Stone - 1821 - 718 strani
...and no 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 strani
...responsible for the abuse of that right; and no law shall be passed, to restrain, or abridge the liberly of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or...shall be acquitted ; and the jury shall have the right t» determine the law and the fact. SEC. IX. The assent of two thirds of the members elected to each... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature - 1887 - 102 strani
...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...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... | |
 | James Kent - 1827 - 544 strani
...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...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... | |
 | Montgomery Robert Bartlett - 1828 - 426 strani
...bemg responsible for the abuse of that right; and no law shall be passed to restrain, or abridge, the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions...be given in evidence to the jury; and if it shall :ippear to the jury, that the matter charged as libellous, is true, and was published with good motives,... | |
 | New York (State) - 1829 - 826 strani
.... r , . i •<- • j 11 ii proceedingi. given in evidence to the jury ; and 11 it shall appear to the jury that. the matter charged as libellous is true, and was published with good motives and for justifiable ends, the party is to be acquitted ; and the jury have the right to determine... | |
 | 1834 - 518 strani
...now incorporated into the laws of many of the States, is introduced into this bill of rights, viz.: ' In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence; and if it shall appear to the jury, that the matter charged as libellous is true, and was published... | |
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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... 
