 | John Frederick Archbold - 1853 - 1006 strani
...thereof may always be given in evidence, and 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. Con. & 6, art. 8. That il'any person shall write, print or publish any false or malicious libel of,... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1853 - 318 strani
...for the abuse of that liberty. * * * And in all indictments for libels, the jury shall have aright to determine the law and the facts, under the direction of the court, as in other cases. Sec. 16. No subsidy, charge, impost, or duties ought to be established, fixed, laid, or levied, under any... | |
 | Jonathan French - 1854 - 534 strani
...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 lands, goods, person,... | |
 | 1855 - 576 strani
...the truth thereof may be giren 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 criminal cases. 20. That no retrospective law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts, shall... | |
 | Edmund Hatch Bennett, Franklin Fiske Heard - 1857 - 642 strani
...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 did not imagine, that... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - 1858 - 666 strani
...speedy public trial by an impartial jury ;" " and 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." Art. 1, §§ 10, 13. Yet under these provisions, and the beneficent common law, it was held error by... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1858 - 772 strani
...any hereditary emolument, privileges or honors ever be granted or conferred in this State. 18. That the citizens have a right, in a peaceable manner, to assemble together for their common good ; to* instruct their representatives, and to apply to those entrusted with the power of government... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1858 - 820 strani
...any hereditary emolument, piivileges or honors ever he granted or conferred in this State. IS. That the citizens have a right, in a peaceable manner, to assemble together for their common good ; to instruct their representatives, and to apply to those entrusted with the power of government for... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1858 - 820 strani
...any hereditary emolument, piivilcges or honors ever be granted or conferred in this State. IS. That the citizens have a right, in a peaceable manner, to assemble together for their common good; to instruct their representatives, and to apply to those entrusted with the power of government for... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - 1860 - 874 strani
...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." (Const. Penn., Art. IX. s. 7.) In some constitutions the extension of the right to give the truth in... | |
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In prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating the official conduct of officers, or men in a public capacity, or where the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence. And in all indictments... 
