 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1840 - 626 Seiten
...most faithful and most obliged servant, ISAAC BARRE. juries, in eriminal prosecutions for libel, to give "a general verdict of guilty or not guilty, upon the whole matter put in issue upon the indictment or information." In its progress through the House of Commons, Mr. Fox was most ably... | |
 | George Worthington - 1840 - 72 Seiten
...province of juries very materially in cases of libel, and >- -" making or publishing any 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, merely on the proof... | |
 | William Dickinson - 1841 - 1196 Seiten
...enacted, that in all trials for libel on an issue joined between the king and the defendant, " 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... | |
 | 1841 - 522 Seiten
...32 Geo. 3, c. 60, я. 1, that the jury in all cases of information or indictment for libel, may find a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter in issue, and are not to be required by the court or judge to find a verdict of guilty merely on proof... | |
 | 1842 - 556 Seiten
...the same to give their verdict upon the whole matter in issue ; and it is then declared and enacted that on every such trial the jury sworn to try the issue may give a general verdict of guihy or not guilty upon the whole matter put in issue npon such indictment or information, and shall... | |
 | Thomas Harttree Cornish - 1843 - 334 Seiten
...give their verdict on the whole matter in issue, it is declared that on every such trial, 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 court or judge to find the defendant guilty,... | |
 | George Wingrove Cooke - 1844 - 562 Seiten
...punishable by indictment or information. Since the statute 32 Geo. 3. c. 60., which declares that a jury may give a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter put in issue upon any indictment or information, and by consequence may determine whether the matter charged is criminal,... | |
 | Peter Oxenbridge Thacher - 1845 - 756 Seiten
...III. 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 in issue, and should not be required or directed by the court or judge before whom the trial was had, to find... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 806 Seiten
...author and promoter of the measure. By this Statute it is declared and enacted, " That the Jury may find a General verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter put in issue, and shall not be required or directed by the Judire to find the Defendant guilty merely on the proof... | |
 | 1846 - 528 Seiten
...by the Bench in libel by granting that the jury in all cases of information or indictment may find a general verdict of guilty or not guilty upon the whole matter in issue, although brought in by Mr. Fox, became law chiefly through the efforts of Lord Camden ; and... | |
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Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, 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... 
