 | New York (State). Legislature - 1887 - 102 pages
...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 acquitted; and the jury shall have the right... | |
 | Moses Severance - 1832 - 312 pages
...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 acquitted ; and the jury shall have the right... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Hall - 1847 - 480 pages
...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 acquitted ; and the jury snail have the right... | |
 | Ebenezer Meriam - 1847 - 224 pages
...that in actions of libel the truth may be given in evidence ; and if it shall appear to the jury that the matter charged as libelous, is true, and was published with good motives and justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted, the jury to be judges of the low and fact.... | |
 | Andrew White Young - 1848 - 304 pages
...most of our constitutions, declaring that " the truth may be given in evidence to the jury, and if the matter charged as libelous is true, and was published with good motives and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted." .In the state of Vermont, however,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Hall - 1849 - 482 pages
...jr libels, the truth miy 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 acquitted; and the jury shall have the right to... | |
 | John Ross Browne - 1850 - 538 pages
...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 acquitted ; and the jury shall have the right... | |
 | 1852 - 680 pages
...if it shall appear to the jury that the matter charged as libellous be true, and was published with good motives and for justifiable ends, the partv shall...be acquitted ; and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the fact. 4. The right of the people peaceably to assemble to consult for the... | |
 | 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 - 1918 - 854 pages
...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 accused shall be acquitted." It is urged by counsel for the people... | |
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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 acquitted;... 
