 | Edmund Hatch Bennett, Franklin Fiske Heard - 1857 - 642 pages
...Cases. jury should give their verdict upon the whole matter in issue. The act provided, that they might give a general verdict of guilty, or not guilty, upon the whole matter put to issue on the indictment, or information, and that they should not be required to find the defendant... | |
 | 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 shall be tried... | |
 | 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 Judge before... | |
 | David Rowland - 1859 - 608 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... | |
 | 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 - 316 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
