 | John Pitt Taylor - 1848 - 764 pages
...32 Geo. 3, c. 60, § 1, enacts that, on every trial of an indictment or information for a libel, " the jury sworn to try the issue may give a general...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... | |
 | John Simcoe Saunders - 1851 - 662 pages
...verdict upon 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 the... | |
 | Jacob D. Wheeler - 1851 - 704 pages
...HI. c. 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 had,... | |
 | William Conway Keele - 1851 - 724 pages
...1 Haw. c. 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Vermont. Supreme Court - 1852 - 836 pages
...of the facts and the laws." 29 Par. tlist. 582. 5 Camp. Ld. Chan. 50. 6 Ib. 345. State u. Croteau. general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter put in issue." It is, undoubtedly, true, that this does admit the right in the jury to decide the law as... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1853 - 1016 pages
...Jury impannelled to 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...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... | |
 | Charles James Fox - 1853 - 900 pages
...King and the defendant or defendants on the plea of not guilty pleaded, the jury sworn to try the same 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 or... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
