 | New York (State). Constitutional Convention, Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter, William Leete Stone - 1821 - 722 pages
...and uo law shall be passed, to restrain, or abridge, the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth...evidence, to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the jury, that the matter charged as libellous, is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable... | |
 | New York (State) - 1823 - 516 pages
...and no law shall be passed, to restrain, or abridge the liberly of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth...evidence, to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the jury, that the matter charged as libellous, is true, and was published with .good motives, and for... | |
 | 1826 - 228 pages
...; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth...evidence to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the jury, that the matter charged as libellous is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable... | |
 | James Kent - 1827 - 544 pages
...mentioned, and is not quite so latitudinary in its indulgence as some of them. It declares, that " in all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth...evidence to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the jury, that the matter charged as •ibellous, is true, and was published with good motives, and for... | |
 | Francis Smith Eastman - 1828 - 320 pages
...; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth...evidence to the jury; and if it shall appear to the jury, that the matter charged as libellous is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable... | |
 | Montgomery Robert Bartlett - 1828 - 426 pages
...and no law shall be passed to restrain, or abridge, the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth...be given in evidence to the jury; and if it shall :ippear to the jury, that the matter charged as libellous, is true, and was published with good motives,... | |
 | New York (State) - 1829 - 826 pages
...and no law shall be passed, to restrain, or abridge the liberty011 of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth...evidence, to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the jury, that the matter charged as libellous, is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable... | |
 | 1831 - 392 pages
...right ; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth...evidence to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the jury, that the matter charged as libellous is true, aJid was published with good motives, and for justifiable... | |
 | Moses Severance - 1833 - 304 pages
...and no law shall be passed to restrain, or abridge, the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth...evidence to the jury ; and if it shall appear to t'he jury, that the mutter charged as libelous, is true, and was publishe with good motives, and for justifiable... | |
 | Moses Severance - 1835 - 314 pages
...and no law shall be passed to restrain, or abridge, the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth...matter charged as libelous, is true, and was published vith good motives, and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted ; and the jury shall have... | |
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Every citizen may. freely speak, write, and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right ; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all criminal prosecutions... 
