...information for the making or publishing any libel." The Act provides that in such cases the jury may give a verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter...indictment or information, and shall not be required to find a verdict of guilty merely on proof of the publication of the paper charged to be a libel,...

...same, to give their verdict upon the whole matter put in issue, it is (by sec. I) 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...

...indictment, or information for the making or publishing any libel, on the plea of not guilty pleaded, the jury sworn to try the issue may give a general...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 court or Judge...

...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 of the Chancellor,...

...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...

...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,...

...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,...

...respecting the functions of juries in cases of libel," and it declared and enacted that the jury might give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty, upon the whole matter put in issue upon the indictment or information, arid should not be required or directed by the court or judge before...

...the right to determine the law and facts, or in other words, the jury sworn to try the case, might give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty, upon the whole matter put in issue, and should not be required or directed by the Court or Judge before whom such case should be tried,...

...to 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...of guilty or not guilty, upon the whole matter put to issue on such indictment or information; ami shall not be required or directed by the Court or Judge,...