 | Pennsylvania - 1876 - 722 pages
...prosecutions for the publications of papers investigating the official conduct of officers, or men in public capacity, or where the matter published is...under the direction of the court, as in other cases. Searehes ami Seizures. SECT. 8. That the people shall be secure in their persons, heuses, papers and... | |
 | William O. Bateman - Constitutional law - 1876 - 416 pages
...by all. office, or the qualifications of those who are candidates for the suffrages of the people, or where the matter published is proper for public...evidence; and in all indictments for libels, the jury, after having received the direction of the court, shall have a right to determine, at their discretion,... | |
 | Arthur Norman Holcombe - Political Science - 1923 - 536 pages
...In order, however, to guard against arbitrary convictions in libel cases, it further provided that "in prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating...right to determine the law and the facts, under the 1 Pennsylvania Constitution of 1790, Article i\. Section 7. direction of the court, as in other cases."... | |
 | Robert Luce - Legislative bodies - 1924 - 718 pages
...was the weak point for the first inroad. Pennsylvania in 1790 put into her Declaration of Rights : "In prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating...under the direction of the court, as in other cases." This was copied, literally or in substance, by Kentucky and Delaware in 1792, Tennessee in 1796, and... | |
 | Texas, Rolland Bradley - Labor laws and legislation - 1924 - 302 pages
...the publication of papers investigating the 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 directions of the court, as in other cases,... | |
 | John Weldon Hoot - 1926 - 162 pages
...prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating the official conduct of officers or men in public capacity, or where the matter published is...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".... | |
 | James Patterson McBaine - Civil procedure - 1927 - 1074 pages
...has expressed the same constitutional doctrine and incorporated it with the Declaration of Rights. "In all indictments for libels the jury shall have...under the direction of the court, as in other cases." There can be no doubt that both in criminal and civil cases the court may express to the jury their... | |
 | Kentucky - Constitutional law - 1928 - 98 pages
...fully speak, write and print on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty. Sec. 9. In prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating...may be given in evidence; and in all indictments for libel the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the facts, under the direction of the... | |
 | William Reed Arthur, Ralph L. Crosman - Libel and slander - 1928 - 408 pages
...for the abuse of that liberty. Sec'. 9. Libel; Truth Justification; Jury Judges of Law and Facts. — In prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating...may be given in evidence; and in all indictments for libel the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the facts, under the direction of the... | |
 | Harrie Badger Coe - Maine - 1928 - 620 pages
...public capacity, or the qualifications of those who are candidates for the suffrages of the people, or where the matter published is proper for public...evidence, and in all indictments for libels, the Jury, after having received the direction of the Court, shall have a right to determine, at their discretion,... | |
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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... 
