 | 1845 - 542 páginas
...every trial of an indictment or inform* ation for a libel, " the jury sworn to try the issue may give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter put in issue upon such indictment or information; and shall not be required or directed by the court... | |
 | 1846 - 528 páginas
...by the Bench in libel by granting that the jury in all cases of information or indictment may find a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter in issue, although brought in by Mr. Fox, became law chiefly through the efforts of Lord Camden ; and after repeated... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1847 - 566 páginas
...Parliament of Mr. Fox's celebrated libel bill, 32 Geo. 3, c. 60, which provided, that the jury might give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter put in issue, including the fact of publication, the application of the innuendoes, the truth or falsehood... | |
 | John Pitt Taylor - 1848 - 764 páginas
...every trial of an indictment or information for a libel, " the jury sworn to try the issue may give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter put in issue upon such indictment or information ; and shall not be required or directed by the court... | |
 | William Conway Keele - 1851 - 724 páginas
...73, § 5. By 13 & 14 V. c. 60, § 1, upon the trial of any indictment for libel, the jury may give a general verdict of "guilty" or "not guilty" upon the whole matter in issue, without being required to find the defendant guilty merely on the proof of publication, and may also... | |
 | Jacob D. Wheeler - 1851 - 704 páginas
...60., which declared, " that on every trial for a libel, the jury sworn to try the issue might give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter put iu issue, and should not be reqiiired or directed by the court or judge before whom the trial was... | |
 | John Simcoe Saunders - 1851 - 662 páginas
...the whole matter in issue, it was by 32 Geo. III. c. 60, enacted and declared, that the jury may give a general verdict of guilty, or not guilty, upon the whole matter put in issue, and shall not be required or directed by the court to find the deft, guilty merely on... | |
 | John Frederick Archbold - 1852 - 750 páginas
...it was enacted that upon every trial on an indictment or information for a libel, the jury may give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter put in issue, and shall not be required or directed by the judge to fa'ud the defendant guilty, on... | |
 | Vermont. Supreme Court - 1852 - 836 páginas
...jury should give their verdict upon the whole matter in issue. The act provided, that they might give a general verdict of guilty, or not guilty, upon the whole matter put to issue on the indictment, or information, and that they should not be required to find the defendant... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1853 - 1016 páginas
...matter in issue,'' — enacts, that " on every such trial the Jury sworn to try the issue may give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter put in issue upon such indictment or information, and shall not be required or directed by the Court... | |
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ENACTED, that, On every Such trial, the jury sworn to try the issue may give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter put in issue... 
