...of speech or of the press. In all criminal prosecutions or indictments 250 JACKSON, J., dissenting. for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to...be acquitted; and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the fact." " It would not be an exaggeration to say that, basically, this provision...

...the jury, that the matter charged as libellous, is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted ; and...the right to determine the law and the fact. SEC. IX. The assent of two-thirds of the members elected to each branch of the legislature, shall be requisite...

...be passed, to restrain, or abridge, the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments 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 libellous, is true, aud was published with good motives, and for justifiable...

...lihellous, is true, and was puhlished with good motives, and for justifiahle ends, the party shall he acquitted ; and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the fact. SEC. IX. The assent of two-thirds of the memhers elected to each hranch of the legislature, shall he requisite...

...shall be passed, to restrain, or abridge the liberly of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments 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 libellous, is true, and was published with .good motives, and for...

...passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. In all criminal prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may be given in...the right to determine the law and the fact. SEC. 9. The assent of two-thirds of the members elected to each branch of the Legislature shall be requisite...

...shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments 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 libellous is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable...

...quite so latitudinary in its indulgence as some of them. It declares, that " in all prosecutions or indictments 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 •ibellous, is true, and was published with good motives, and for...

...shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments 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 libellous is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable...

...shall be passed to restrain, or abridge, the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth may 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,...