 | 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 - 780 pages
...libels. 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 by the judge to find the defendant guilty merely on... | |
 | William Selwyn - 1861 - 874 pages
...whole matter 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John McNab (Barrister-at-law.) - 1865 - 672 pages
...making or publishing any libel, on the plea of not guilty pleaded, the jury sworn to try the issue may give a general verdict of 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - 1866 - 780 pages
...libels. And it declare« 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 by the judge to find the defendant guilty merely on... | |
 | William Thomas Brande, George William Cox - 1866 - 972 pages
...Fox) it was enacted that on every trial of an indictment or information for libel the jury may find a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter in issue, thus deciding whether the matter published amounts to a libel or no. As to the grand jury,... | |
 | William Thomas Brande - 1866 - 992 pages
...Fox) it was enacted that on every trial of an indictment or information for libel the jury may find a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter in issue, thus deciding whether the matter published amounts to a libel or no. As to the grand jury,... | |
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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... 
