| Thomas Jefferson Farnham - California - 1851 - 658 pages
...citizen may freely speak, write and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right ; and no law shall be passed to...speech or of the press. In all criminal prosecutions on indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury ; and if it shall appear... | |
| Jacob D. Wheeler - Criminal law - 1851 - 704 pages
...citizen may freely speak, write and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right ; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth... | |
| California. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1851 - 672 pages
...write and publish his sentiments on all subjects, Matter of Impeachment. being 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.' This clause follows almost precisely in language... | |
| John M. Letts - History - 1852 - 320 pages
...citizen may freely speak, write, and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right; and no law shall be passed to...speech or of the press. In all criminal prosecutions on indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury; and if it shall appear to... | |
| Constitutional history - 1852 - 680 pages
...citizen may freely speak, write, and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right ; and no law shall be passed to...speech or of the press. In all criminal prosecutions on indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury ; and if it shall appear... | |
| A. S. Barnes - Constitutional history - 1852 - 676 pages
...freely speak, write, and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of the right ; and no law shall be passed to restrain or...speech, or of the press. In all criminal prosecutions for libel, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury, and if it shall appear to the jury, that... | |
| Ohio - Law - 1852 - 362 pages
...the freedom lish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the th e press. abuse of the right; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge...liberty of speech, or of the press. In all criminal of ^ b ^ s prosecutions for libel, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury, and if it shall... | |
| Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1918 - 854 pages
...to return a verdict of guilty." The Constitution (section 18, art. 2) provides: "In all prosecutions 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... | |
| Jesse B. Hart - Civil procedure - 1853 - 334 pages
...citizen may freely speak, write, and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right ; and no law shall be passed to...speech or of the press. In all criminal prosecutions on indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury; and if it shall appear to... | |
| John M. Letts - California - 1853 - 438 pages
...citizen may freely speak, write, and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right ; and no law shall be passed to...speech or of the press. In all criminal prosecutions on indictments for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury ; and if it shall appear... | |
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