 In all criminal 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 ends, the party shall be...  Laws of the Territory of Idaho - Page 457by Idaho (Ter.) - 1864Full view - About this book
 | Wisconsin. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1848 - 698 pages
...passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libel the truth may be given in evidence to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the jury that the matter charged aslibelous be true, and was published with good motives and for justifiable'... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1004 pages
...passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libel, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the jury that the matter charged as libellous is true, and was published with good motives and for justifiable... | |
 | William Euen - Education - 1848 - 164 pages
...passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libel, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the jury that the matter charged as libellous is true, and was published with good motives and for justifiable... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Hall - Real property - 1849 - 482 pages
...speech or of the pres». In all prosecutions or indictments f jr libels, the truth miy be given in evidence to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the...charged as libelous is true, and was published with good motives and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted; and the jury shall have the right to... | |
 | William Johnson, New York (State). Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1849 - 866 pages
...passed In restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libel, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the jury that the matter charged as libellous is true, and was published with good motives aud for justifiable... | |
 | California. Constitutional Convention, John Ross Browne - Constitutional conventions - 1850 - 538 pages
...or of the press. 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...charged as libelous is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted ; and the jury shall have the right... | |
 | California. Constitutional Convention, John Ross Browne - California - 1850 - 540 pages
...or of the press. 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 :- true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted... | |
 | Ohio - Law - 1852 - 362 pages
...be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all criminal of ^ b ^ s prosecutions for libel, the truth may be given in...that the matter charged as libelous is true, and was publishedwith good motives, and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted. * * J r ' ' * of... | |
 | 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
...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...charged as libelous is true and was published with good motives and for justifiable ends, the accused shall be acquitted." It is urged by counsel for the people... | |
 | A. S. Barnes - Constitutional history - 1852 - 674 pages
...law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of 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 the matter charged as libellous is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable... | |
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