 | John Frederick Archbold - 1852 - 750 pages
...00, a. 1, 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 proof merely of... | |
 | Vermont. Supreme Court - 1852 - 836 pages
...the 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 Forsyth - 1852 - 506 pages
...doubts respecting the functions of Juries in cases of Libel ;' and it declares and enacts that the jury may give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole 1 6 and 7 Viet. c. 75. ' 32 Geo. III. c. 60. matter put in issue upon the indictment or information,... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1853 - 1016 pages
...try the same to give their verdict upon the whole matter in issue,'' — enacts, that " on every such trial the Jury sworn to try the issue may give a general...required or directed by the Court or Judge before whom the indictment or information shall be tried to find the defendant or defendants guilty merely on the... | |
 | John Frederick Archbold - 1853 - 1006 pages
...probably break out in open acts of violence against tho author of such mation 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 find the defendant guilty, on proof merely of... | |
 | Benjamin Boothby - 1854 - 480 pages
...verdict upon the whole matter in issue, — it is by sect. 1, declared and enacted, that on every such trial the jury sworn to try the issue may give a general verdict of not guilty upon the whole matter put in issue upon such indictment or information ; and shall not be... | |
 | Edmund Hatch Bennett, Franklin Fiske Heard - 1857 - 642 pages
...Cases. 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... | |
 | South Australia - 1876 - 404 pages
...information for making or publishing a libel, where any issue is joined on the plea of not guilty, 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 or Judge before whom such information shall be tried... | |
 | Ireland. High Court of Chancery - 1859 - 682 pages
...Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that, on every such trial, the jury sworn to 1ry the issue may give a general verdict of guilty or...not guilty, upon the whole matter put in issue upon soch indictment or information ; and shall not be required or directed by the Court or Judge before... | |
 | David Rowland - 1859 - 606 pages
...their verdict upon the whole matter in issue ; — it was declared and enacted that the jury might give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty, upon the whole matter in issue ; and should not be required or directed by the judge to find the defendant guilty, merely... | |
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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... 
