 | Edmund Hatch Bennett, Franklin Fiske Heard - Criminal law - 1857 - 642 pages
...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... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1858 - 788 pages
...investigating the official conduct of officers, or men in a public capacity, or where the matter published i» proper for public information, the truth thereof may...Jury shall have a right to determine the law, and the fact, under the direction of the court, »a in other cases. This is the situation in which the Constitution... | |
 | 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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1858 - 666 pages
...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... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Law - 1860 - 874 pages
...publication of papers investigating the official conduct of officers, or men in a public capacity, or when the matter published is proper for public information,...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... | |
 | United States. Department of State - Latin America - 1888 - 1024 pages
...1, of the constitution of Texas provides 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.' •'These provisions rentier it wholly unwarrantable for any judge, domestic or foreign, alone to decide... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1900 - 716 pages
...papers in investigating the official conduct of officers, or of men acting in a public capacity, when the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence. Stuart r. The People. " Under the protection and sanction of these high attributes of a free government,... | |
 | Pennsylvania. General Assembly - Parliamentary practice - 1863 - 84 pages
...prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating the official conduct of officers, or men in public capacity, or where the matter published is...under the direction of the court, as in other cases. Searches and SECT. VIII. That the people shall be secure in their persons, seizures. houses, papers... | |
 | Ezra Champion Seaman - Constitutional history - 1863 - 312 pages
...or men in public capacity, the mattef published is proper for public information, the truth tkereof may be given in evidence ; and in all indictments...jury shall have a right to determine the law and the facta, under the direction of the court, as in other cases. 14. That no power of suspending laws shall... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1972 - 1362 pages
...liberty. In prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating the official conduct of officers or men in a public capacity, or where the matter published...the truth thereof may be given in evidence ; and in ¡\11 indictments for libels the jury shall linve a right to determine the law and the facts, under... | |
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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... 
