 | William Winterbotham - History - 1795 - 514 pages
...refponfible for the abufe of that liberty. In prufecutions for the publication of pa« pers, inveftigating the official conduct of officers, or men in a public capacity, or where the matter publifiied is proper for public information, fh? truth thereof may be given in evidence. And, in all... | |
 | William Winterbotham - America - 1796 - 580 pages
...invcftigating the official conduä of officers, or men in a public capacity, or where the nmter publifhed is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence. And, in all indi£lments for libels, the jury fhall have a right to determine the law and the fafts, under the... | |
 | Kentucky - Constitutional law - 1799 - 606 pages
...refponfible for the abufe of that liberty. 8. in profecutions for the publication of papers, inveftigating the official conduct of officers or men in a public capacity, or where the? matter publimed is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence. And in all indictments... | |
 | Booksellers and bookselling - 1800 - 306 pages
...for the abufe of that liberty. SECT. 8. In profecutions for the publication of papers inveftigating the official conduct of officers, or men in a public capacity, or where the matter publi(hed is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence. And in all... | |
 | Constitutions - 1804 - 372 pages
...for the abuse of that liberty. In prosecutions for any publication respecting the official conduct of men in a public capacity, or where the matter published...proper for public information, the truth thereof may always be given in evidence, and in all indictments for libels, the jury shall have a right to determine... | |
 | James Wilson, Bird Wilson - Law - 1804 - 456 pages
...footing, consonant, or nearly consonant in my opinion, to the true principles of the common law : " in all indictments for libels, the jury shall have a right to determine the law and the facts, under the direction of the court, as in other cases." a The punishment of a libel is a fine,... | |
 | Edward Shippen, William Hamilton - Impeachments - 1805 - 590 pages
...inveftigating the official conduct of officers, or men in a public capacity, ,<r where the matter publiflied is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence : And, in all indiflments for libels, the jury fliall have a right to determine the law and the facts, under the... | |
 | 1805 - 596 pages
...of that liberty. Jn profecutions for the publication of papers^ inveftigtting the official conducl of officers, or men in a public capacity, or where the matter publifhed is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence i And, in all... | |
 | Horace Binney, Pennsylvania. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1809 - 676 pages
...person " shall be subject to prosecution by indictment in any of the " courts of this commonwealth, for the publication of papers " investigating the official conduct of officers, or men in a pub" lie capacity." The prosecution by indictment is the only criminal prosecution of such offences... | |
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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... 
