...upon the whole matter in issue : Be it therefore " declared and enacted, by, &c. That on every snch trial the Jury " sworn to try the issue, may give...Not guilty, upon the whole matter put to issue on snch indict" ment or information ; — and shall not be required or directed " by the Court or Judge,...

...32 G to. 3. с. бо. " That on «very trial of an indictment or information for a libel, the jury may give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the cr in iflue, and (hall not be required or directed by the court or judge before whom fuch indioment...

...give " their verdict upon the whole matter in issue: Be it therefore " declared and enacted, by, &c. That on every such trial the Jury " sworn to try the...guilty, upon the whole matter put to issue on such indict" meat or information ;—and shall: not be required or directed " by the Court or Judge, before...

...the same to give 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...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 whom...

...indictment or information for the making or publishing of any libel, it shall be competent to 1 he jury to give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter put in issue, and that the jury shall not be required or directed by the court to find the defendant guilty...

...and temporal, and commons, in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that on every such trial, the jury sworn to try the...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 or...

...in an attempt to improve the law of libel, by an act declaratory of the right of a jury to bring in a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter put to issue on an indictment or information for libel, without being required to regard the proof of the fact of publication...

...vol. viii. p. 36.) has fully established the right of juries in criminal prosecutions for libels, to give ' a general verdict of guilty or not guilty, upon the whole matter put in issue upon the indictment or information.' This statute originated 1n the House of Commons, where...

...that on the 9ih of January last, he went * It is now by Statute 32 G. 3, c. 60, settled, that the jury may give a general verdict of Guilty or Not Guilty upon the whole matter put to issue on the indictment or information. See vol. 8, p. 36. As to the contests which had arisen respecting this...

...declaratory statute 32 Geo. 3, c. 60, has fully established the right of juries in such cases to « give a general verdict of Guilty or Not Guilty ' upon the whole matter put to issue on the in' dictment or information.' This statute originated in the House of Commons, where the motion...