 | Jonathan French - 1857 - 594 Seiten
...of papers, investigating the official conduct of officers, or men in a public capacity, or where the matter published is proper for public information,...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 - 466 Seiten
...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 Gerhard - 1857 - 474 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...publication of papers investigating the official conduct of officers or men in public capacity, or when the matter published is proper for public information,...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.... | |
 | Edmund Hatch Bennett, Franklin Fiske Heard - 1857 - 642 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - 1864 - 960 Seiten
...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, Thomas Hart Benton - 1857 - 754 Seiten
...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... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1858 - 788 Seiten
...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 - 1858 - 666 Seiten
...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... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - 1860 - 874 Seiten
...of papers investigating the official conduct of officers, or men in a public capacity, or when the matter published is proper for public information,...the law and the facts, under the direction of the court, as in other cases." (Const. Penn., Art. IX. s. 7.) In some constitutions the extension of the... | |
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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... 
