 | Ontario - 1859 - 1250 pages
...• ' • • of guilty on the pleaded, the jury sworn to try the issue may give a gene mere proof of verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter put in >the publication . . ° . J . ,. ° * *. . and of the sense in such action, indictment or mtormation,... | |
 | Hugo Meyer - 1860 - 308 pages
...©treitigïeiten in ber ^rariê burфfeète, beïtarirte alS befteljcnbeê 5Яеф1 golgenbeè1): „that the jury may give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter in issue upon the indictment or information and shall not be required or directed by the court or judge... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - 1860 - 778 pages
...And it declares and enacts that on every 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 in issue, and shall not be required or directed hy the judge to find the defendant guilty merely on... | |
 | William Selwyn - 1861 - 874 pages
...in issue; it was, by "Mr. Fox's Libel Act," 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 defendant guilty, merely on the proof... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1861 - 622 pages
...improvement of the law known as Mr. Fox's Libel Bill, by which was established the right of juries to give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter put in issue upon the indictment. This Bill was carried in the House of Commons in the Session of 1791, Pitt supporting... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - 1862 - 660 pages
...government. After reciting that doubts had arisen, it declared and enacted that on every such trial, 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 by the court or judge to find... | |
 | Homersham Cox - 1863 - 860 pages
...information for the making or publishing any libel." The Act provides that in such cases the jury may give a verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter...indictment or information, and shall not be required to find a verdict of guilty merely on proof of the publication of the paper charged to be a libel,... | |
 | Thomas Spence - 1864 - 456 pages
...verdict upon the whole matter put in issue, it is (by sec. I) 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... | |
 | John McNab (Barrister-at-law.) - 1865 - 672 pages
...indictment, or information for the making or publishing any libel, on the plea of not guilty pleaded, the jury sworn to try the issue may give a general...guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter put in issue in such action, indictment, or information, and shall not be required or directed by the court or Judge... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1865 - 946 pages
...improvement of the law known as Mr. Fox's Libel Bill, by which was established the right of juries to give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter put in issue upon the indictment. This Bill had been lost in the previous Session through the opposition of the Chancellor,... | |
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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... 
