 | Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - 1839 - 310 頁
...public capacity, or where the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof imy be given in evidence ; and in all indictments for...facts, under the direction of the court, as in other eases. SECT. VIII. That the people ehall be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and possessions,... | |
 | Philip Phillips - 1840 - 412 頁
...officers or men in public capacity, or when the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence; and in...the law and the facts, under the direction of the courts. SEC. 15. Returns of all elections for officers who are to be commissioned by the governor,... | |
 | 1841 - 460 頁
...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,...facts, under the direction of the court, as in other cases. 8. That the people shall be secure in their persons, houses, papers and possessions, from unreasonable... | |
 | Maine - 1841 - 922 頁
...candidates for the suffrages of the people, or where the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in 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,... | |
 | Maine. Legislature. Senate - 1842 - 130 頁
...candidates for the suffrages of the people, or where the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in 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,... | |
 | Maine. Legislature - 1843 - 1284 頁
...candidates for the suffrages of the people, or where the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in 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,... | |
 | 1843 - 434 頁
...men acting in a political capacity, or where the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence ; and, in all indictments for libels, the jurj shall have the right of determining both the law and the fact, under the direction of the court,... | |
 | Peter Oxenbridge Thacher - 1845 - 756 頁
...or men in public capacity, or where the matter published is proper for public information, the truth may be given in evidence. And, in all indictments...facts under the direction of the court as in other cases." — Const. Art. IX. Sec. VII. AD 1790. Ib. — " That all laws of this commonwealth, in force... | |
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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... 
