| United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - 1857 - 788 страница
...write, and print, on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that libery ; that in prosecations for the publication of papers investigating the official...Jury shall have a right to determine the law, and the fact, under the direction of the court, as in other cases. This is the situation in which the Constitution... | |
| Jonathan French - 1857 - 594 страница
...may freely speak, write and print on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty. In prosecutions for the publication of papers, investigating...libels, the jury shall have a right to determine the lav ami the facts, under the direction of the court, as in other cases. 8. That the people shall be... | |
| Frederick Gerhard - 1857 - 480 страница
...papers investigating the official conduct of officers, or of men acting in a public capacity, or when the matter published is proper for public information,...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 страница
...privilege, and no law shall have the right to control the liberty of speech or of the press. SEC. ti. In prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating the official conduct of officers or men in public capacity, or when the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may... | |
| Frederick Gerhard - 1857 - 466 страница
...house without the consent of the owner; nor in time of war, except in manner prescribed by law. 24. In prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating the official conduct of officers, or of men acting in a public capacity, or when the matter published is proper for public information,... | |
| Frederick Gerhard - 1857 - 474 страница
...house without the consent of the owner ; nor in time of war, except in manner prescribed by law. 24. In prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating the official conduct of officers, or of men acting in a public capacity, or when the matter published is proper for public information,... | |
| Edmund Hatch Bennett, Franklin Fiske Heard - 1857 - 642 страница
...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 страница
...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 страница
...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,... | |
| United States. Congress - 1858 - 788 страница
...freely speak, write, and print, on any subject, being responsble for the abuse of that libery ; that in prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating...in a public capacity, or where the matter published i» proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence; and in all indictments... | |
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