Zenger Sentence Examples

The case was not brought to trial until August 1735, and in the meantime Zenger was kept in jail.

In 1733 a popular organ, the New York Weekly Journal, was established under John Peter Zenger (1697-1746), and in 1735 both the freedom of the press and a great advance toward the independence of the judiciary were the outcome of a famous libel suit against Zenger.

For printing these Zenger was arrested for libel in November 1734.