 | sir William Blackstone - 1825 - 584 pages
...declaratory and enacting; by sect. 1. the jury in all cases of information or indictment for libel may find a general verdict of guilty or not guilty, upon the whole matter in issue, and are not to be required by the court or judge to find a verdict of guilty merely on proof... | |
 | Thomas Starkie - 1826 - 658 pages
...their verdict upon the whole matter in issue ; and it is then declared and enacted that on every such trial the Jury sworn to try the issue may give a general...of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter put to issue upon such indictment or information. and shall not be required or directed by the Court before... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - 1826 - 556 pages
...attended his exertions to regulate and improve the law of libel, by giving juries a right to bring in a general verdict of guilty or not guilty, upon the whole matter charged before them in the indictment, and thus elude the fatal prescription up to this period enforced,... | |
 | 1827 - 530 pages
...give their verdict upon the whole matter in issue, " it is DECLARED and enacted, that on every such trial, the Jury sworn to try the issue may give a...indictment or information ; and shall not be required by the court or judge to find the defendant guilty, merely on proof of the publication by such defendant... | |
 | William Dickinson - 1829 - 764 pages
...enacted, that in all trials for libel on an issue joined between the King and the defendant, " 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 defendant guilty merely on the proof... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, James Manning, Archer Ryland - 1831 - 816 pages
...act, (32 Geo. 3, c. 6O,) a that upon the trial of 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 Court to find the defendant guilty merely on the proof... | |
 | Richard Burn - 1831 - 972 pages
...trial, the jury may give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter in issue, and shall not be required or directed by the Court or judge to find the defendant guilty, merely on the proof of the publication by such defendant of the paper... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - 1834 - 518 pages
...that on every trial of an indictment or information for a libel, upon the plea of not guilty, the jury may give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter in issue, and shall not be required or directed by the judge to find the defendant guilty merely on... | |
 | Thomas Edlyne Tomlins - 1835 - 862 pages
...Irish act 33 Geo. 3. c. 43.) which enacted, that on trials of indictment for libel, the jury might on behalf in issue ; and though, perhaps, the act is not drawn in the most intelligible and consistent manner,... | |
 | Tracts - 1836 - 506 pages
...of opinion that the composition is not libellous. By the Libel Act of 32. Geo. 3. c. 60. " the jury may give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty, upon the whole matter put in issue upon the indictment or information, and shall not be required or directed to find the defendant guilty,... | |
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... 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... 
