 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;...  Acts of the Legislature of West Virginia - Page 275by West Virginia - 1887Full view - About this book
 | Ohio - 1873 - 622 pages
...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 libelous is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted. (See Const. 1802, Art. VIII, § 6.)... | |
 | Michigan. Constitutional Commission (1873) - 1873 - 314 pages
...libels, the truth may be given in evi- Art. 2,sec. 4. dence 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. The jury shall have the right to determine... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature. Senate - 1874 - 284 pages
...all 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 libelous is true, and was published with good motives and for justifiable ends, the accused shall be acquitted; and the jury shall have the right... | |
 | Michigan - 1874 - 50 pages
...all 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 libelous is true, and was published with good motives and for justifiable ends, the accused shall be acquitted; and the jury shall have the right... | |
 | California - 1874 - 712 pages
...prosecutions for libel, evidence, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury, and if it appears 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. The jury have the right to determine... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature. House of Representatives - 1874 - 336 pages
...all 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 libelous is true, and was published with good motives and for justifiable ends, the accused shall be acquitted ; and the jury shall have the right... | |
 | Nebraska - 1875 - 434 pages
...liberty of speech or of the press. In all criminal prosecutions or indictments for libel the truth may be given in evidence ; and if it shall appear to the jury that the matter charged as libelous be true, and was published with good motives and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted;... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1875 - 1032 pages
...criminal prosecutions for libel the truth maybe 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 charged shall be acquitted.] [SEC. 7. The right of trial... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Hun - 1875 - 948 pages
...prosecutions.'] The constitutional provision (§ 8, art. 1) that, in cases of libel, "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," applies only to criminal prosecutions.... | |
 | California, Theodore Henry Hittell - 1876 - 986 pages
...criminal prosecutions for libel, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury, and if it appears 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. The jury have the right to determine... | |
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