 | Frederick Gerhard - 1857 - 466 sidor
...of men acting in a public capacity, or when the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence; and in all indictments for libels, the jury shall have the right of determining both the law and the fact, under the direction of the court, as in other cases.... | |
 | Frederick Law Olmsted - 1857 - 570 sidor
...officers or men in public capacity, or when the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may 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 courts, as in other cases.... | |
 | Frederick Gerhard - 1857 - 480 sidor
...of men acting in a public capacity, or when the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence ; and in all indictments for libels, the jury shall have the right of determining both the law and the fact, under the direction of the court, as in other cases.... | |
 | Edmund Hatch Bennett, Franklin Fiske Heard - 1857 - 642 sidor
...520 ; Henfields case, Wharton's St. Tr. 87, (1793). The Sedition Law, passed in 1798, declares, that the jury shall have a right to determine the law and the facts, as in other cases. Whart. St. Tr. 337 ; 33* Jury — Judges of the Law in Criminal Cases. Frier's case,... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - 1857 - 754 sidor
...evidence in his defence, the truth of the matter contained in the publication charged as a libel ; and the jury shall have a right to determine the law and the fact, under the direction of the Court, as in other ca.<cs," as in and by the said act, commonly called... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - 1864 - 960 sidor
...concerning Libels was brought before the Legislature. It "declared that in every indictment or information, the Jury shall have a right to determine the law and the fact under the direction of the Court, as in other criminal cases." On the consideration of this bill,... | |
 | 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 sidor
...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... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - 1860 - 874 sidor
...officers, or men in a public capacity, or when the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence ; and in...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... | |
 | United States. Department of State - 1888 - 1024 sidor
...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... | |
 | Saint Louis (Mo.). - 1861 - 744 sidor
...liberty ; and in all prosecutions for libel the truth thereof may be given in evidence, and the jury may determine the law and the facts under the direction of the court : 17. That no ex post facto law, nor law impairing the obligation of contracts, or retrospective 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... 
