 | Sir James Prior - 1854 - 838 pages
...give their verdict upon the whole matter in issue ; be it therefore declared and enacted, &c. &c., 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... | |
 | sir James Prior - 1854 - 586 pages
...to give their verdict upon the whole matter in issue; be it therefore declared and enacted, &c. &c., 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... | |
 | Benjamin Boothby - 1854 - 480 pages
...same, to give their 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
...says, expressly committed to juries, is found in the first section of the act, and is simply, " That the jury sworn to try the issue may give a general...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Frederic Clerk, William Harry Barber Lindsell, Alfred Taylour Hunter - 1908 - 1216 pages
...III. c. 60, s. 1, it is provided that in indictments and Fox>8Aot< informations for libel the jury 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 ... to find the... | |
 | Henry Coleman Folkard - 1908 - 752 pages
...whole matter in issue. It is then declared and enacted, that, on every such trial, the Jury may give jury sworn to try the issue may give a general verdict of guilty ^dict™ or not guilty upon the whole matter put in issue upon such indictment or information ; and... | |
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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... 
